From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 18:49:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6035E16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3FE43D4C for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:49:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j0SIndsX029868; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:49:40 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Gert Cuykens Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:49:50 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501281026.33698.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501281049.50926.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make index X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:49:53 -0000 On Friday 28 January 2005 10:31 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:26:33 -0800, Kent Stewart 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 Yes, that is one of the side effects. I use sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex. As long as one of the major Makefiles don't change, you get a updated INDEX in just a few minutes. When it has to do a full cache update, it can take a while :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html