Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:31:53 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to check for updates Message-ID: <200203041931.g24JVrY19931@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <001601c1c2b9$5eb14a20$345bbc42@mad.chartermi.net> <20020303181430.GB37508@voi.aagh.net> <20020303202708.GS30155@squall.waterspout.com>
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>>>>> "WA" == Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> writes: WA> You mean 'portversion', and you can cron the INDEX builds (along WA> with, perhaps, a cvsup of ports), but portupgrade doesn't WA> actually need INDEX -- it generates its own w/ portsdb -Uu. The "-U" flag rebuilds the INDEX file from which the "-u" flag builds the internal db's, so yes, you do need an up-to-date INDEX file. I can't help but think that there's got to be a way to memoize the port dependencies to make building the INDEX file faster than it goes now. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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