From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 19:39:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3208216A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB8543D45 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6KJcIH5015060; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:38:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:39:19 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040720094726.GA30095@sanatana.dharma> In-Reply-To: <20040720094726.GA30095@sanatana.dharma> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407201239.19415.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Radim Kolar Subject: Re: sysutils/portindex weirdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:39:23 -0000 On Tuesday 20 July 2004 02:47 am, Radim Kolar wrote: > > the list goes on.... > > try v17. Last known issue with portindex is that it breaks when ports > tree has circle depends (like today). I must add special check for > this. I just converted my port cvsup cron job to using portindex. I timed the index generation in a number of situations and a typical update seems to require on the order of 40 seconds. Make index was always taking 8-10 minutes or more. It also had a problem with circular behavior. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html