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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:56:51 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Update hangs
Message-ID:  <20041122215651.GA80837@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F88231E-3CC3-11D9-8E4E-000393A5ED5E@antsclimbtree.com>
References:  <4F88231E-3CC3-11D9-8E4E-000393A5ED5E@antsclimbtree.com>

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:15:53PM -0800, Mark Edwards wrote:
> This keeps happening to me, I go to do a portupgrade and I get:
>=20
> lilbuddy:~ paimin$ sudo portupgrade -ra
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..
>=20
> Which never stops.  I can leave it for an hour or more and it just sits=
=20
> there.

It may take more than an hour to complete if you're not on a machine
with fast disks.

> I have to delete /usr/ports/INDEX.db and download a new one=20
> using make fetchindex.
>=20
> This just started a couple weeks ago.  Why does it keep getting hosed?

/usr/ports/UPDATING

Kris

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