From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 06:25:28 2003 Return-Path: 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 1174F37B401 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 06:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1836E43F85 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 06:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@swedehost.com) Received: from thor.swedehost.com (h129n2fls33o804.telia.com [217.209.211.129]) by mailc.telia.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h72DPQad014401; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:25:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Hasse Organization: The Valhalla Project To: dick hoogendijk Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:25:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308020029.45849.webmaster@swedehost.com> <20030802095916.GA19674@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20030802095916.GA19674@lothlorien.nagual.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308021525.25972.webmaster@swedehost.com> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Question about portsdb -uU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 13:25:28 -0000 On Saturday 02 August 2003 11.59, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 02 Aug Hasse wrote: > > I have a question about portsdb -uU > > After a ports cvsup, does it replace the command make index in > > /usr/ports ? Or do you recommend to use both ? > > portsdb -uU *DOES* replace the "make index" from /usr/ports. > > However: while is _is_ quicker, it has some disadvantages! > I advice you to use: > # make index > # portsdb -u > The "make index" is more accurate! It "sees" all the ports, while > portsdb -U sometimes misses some. I like to have a 100% score because a > lot of actions (deps i.e.) depend on a 'sound' portsdb. > > > Someone told me portsdb -uU is a lot faster, but it don't seem to be > > that on my computers. > > On my computer it is (was) faster, but I want quality, so who cares. I > can still work on my machine, can't I, while the index is being > generated ;-)) Thx for clearifying this subject for me. I've been using both commands, just to live on the safe side, and will continue doing that. As you wrote, and I fully agree : " I like to have a 100% score because a lot of actions (deps i.e.) depend on a 'sound' portsdb. " -- Best Regards Hasse.