Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:31:51 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make index Message-ID: <ef60af09050128103160b9a4bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501281026.33698.kstewart@owt.com> References: <ef60af09050128101048545276@mail.gmail.com> <200501281026.33698.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:26:33 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2005 10:10 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > why does make index don't work when you use a refuse file ? > > Think of a complex computer program that depends on a number of modules. > With the refuse, you have removed some modules that the program needs > to build a complete, new version. Since all you are refusing is the > structure files and patches, you really don't save that much space. > > FWIW, if you use fetchindex to download a new INDEX, you don't have to > spend a lot of resources building a new index. I timed make fetchindex > and found the following. > > #time make fetchindex > INDEX.bz2 100% of 612 kB 83 kBps > 0.976u 0.048s 0:08.87 11.3% 146+4723k 1+52io 0pf+0w > > The 8.87 seconds included the time required to download and unbzip2 > INDEX.bz2 into INDEX. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > the problem with downloading it is that it uses default settings for example if you put a index change in the make.conf
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