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From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?
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On 2/1/06, Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I've gone back to the "old foolproof way" of updating my system, I'=
m
> doing a "portsdb -Uu" again - which has always taken forever to run on my
> various machines.  Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), =
or
> has anyone looked at it to see if it needs rewriting?
>
> I worked at a place where a monthly mainframe job ran for 24 hours, and t=
he
> whole plant had to shutdown while it ran (which wasnt too big a deal sinc=
e
> it was on Sunday).  When the job started taking 36 hours to run and the
> original programmer was too busy to fix it,  they brought in a consultant=
 to
> help.  He re-wrote the job so it ran in 15 minutes.  The original program=
mer
> was fired two days later.  Since then, I've always been suspicous of jobs
> that run for long periods of time.

It just does, after you cvsup new ports cd into /usr/ports and type
make fetchindex. what way is the "old foolproof way"?