From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 4 11:32:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3123037B4B2 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:31:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAEB217BB for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:31:53 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g24JVrY19931; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:31:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:31:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203041931.g24JVrY19931@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to check for updates Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.ports References: <001601c1c2b9$5eb14a20$345bbc42@mad.chartermi.net> <20020303181430.GB37508@voi.aagh.net> <20020303202708.GS30155@squall.waterspout.com> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1015269298 75697 216.194.193.106 (4 Mar 2002 19:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "WA" == Will Andrews 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