Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:31 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade slow? Message-ID: <20050908173731.GD49084@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050908125122.2D81B2287F@snail.stack.nl> References: <20050908125122.2D81B2287F@snail.stack.nl>
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--a2FkP9tdjPU2nyhF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote: >=20 > I was upgrading an old machine (P-II 233), and tried to use portupgrade to > update the installed ports. >=20 > However, it is now only building portupgrade's own _index_ for the buildi= ng > and that takes hours already.=20 >=20 > 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? As others have pointed out, it's not portupgrade. Make sure you are using the latest version, because I thought portupgrade stopped building the INDEX quite a while ago (soon after 'make fetchindex' appeared). Kris --a2FkP9tdjPU2nyhF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDIHbbWry0BWjoQKURAk3KAKCMxS+YRGvQgv/bPlh70W1/aIIOtACg1/Pf MIGQYvmWH45wLHpj38XSczc= =/QDO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a2FkP9tdjPU2nyhF--
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