Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:59:53 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade slow? Message-ID: <432043D9.5090308@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050908125122.2D81B2287F@snail.stack.nl> References: <20050908125122.2D81B2287F@snail.stack.nl>
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Marco van de Voort wrote: > I was upgrading an old machine (P-II 233), and tried to use portupgrade to > update the installed ports. > > However, it is now only building portupgrade's own _index_ for the building > and that takes hours already. > > I know it is a lot of metadata in a lot of files, but this is _really_ > extreme. Why is portupgrade so horribly, horribly slow? Doing "make index" can take a great deal of time; it's not portupgrade directly. You are probably going to want to do a "make fetchindex" from /usr/ports instead. If you get portupgrade itself updated, it will do a fetchindex instead... -- -Chuck
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