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From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
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Subject: Re: outdated ports/INDEX database
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* Kent Stewart (kstewart@owt.com) wrote:

> make index
> 
> or
> 
> portsdb -Uu

Last time I tried this it was so mindnumbingly slow I gave up.
Seriously, how many millions of processes does it have to spawn off just
to update an index?

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