From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 00:59:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E5316A476 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:59:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aaronvan@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc15.comcast.net (sccrmhc15.comcast.net [204.127.200.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373D243D49 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:59:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaronvan@comcast.net) Received: from smailcenter58.comcast.net ([204.127.205.158]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc15) with SMTP id <20060611005517015006j3cfe>; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:55:17 +0000 Received: from [67.180.170.102] by smailcenter58.comcast.net; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:55:16 +0000 From: aaronvan@comcast.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:55:16 +0000 Message-Id: <061120060055.25234.448B69F4000776B2000062922205886360020E9002019D0E0E@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Apr 11 2006) X-Authenticated-Sender: YWFyb252YW5AY29tY2FzdC5uZXQ= Subject: ports upgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:59:22 -0000 I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run "make index && make readmes" after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports-supfile? Finally, why does it take so long to make what appear (to me) to be fairly small files? Thanks. -- Aaron