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In message <20050825180958.GH85180@over-yonder.net>, Matthew D. Fuller 
<fullermd@over-yonder.net> writes
>You may be able to talk portupgrade into storing the INDEX.db files
>somewhere local (/var/db/something) by fiddling with the
>ENV['PORTS_DBDIR'] (it looks like the right param) var in the
>pkgtools.conf.  It shouldn't matter that the INDEX-[56] files are
>still in the ports dir, since they don't conflict.

That's what I did; thanks for the pointer (although both machines still 
have to run portsdb -uU).

Cheers,
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Mark A. R. Knight                               finger: markk@knigma.org
Tel: +44 7973 410732                            http://www.knigma.org/

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