Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:10:36 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: martinko <martinkov@pobox.sk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often cvsup the ports? Message-ID: <434ABCAC.2000302@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <diedgh$mig$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <200510061324.37587.mback99@telia.com> <cb5206420510060521k2dd0ecder242d91dc3566fcb2@mail.gmail.com> <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org> <diedgh$mig$1@sea.gmane.org>
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martinko wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL= > > what is this "I" parameter to pkg_version supposed to be? > i don't seem to have it here on 5.4R. It's a new flag in 6.0R; it means "just use the INDEX, you stupid program". ;-) Without that flag, pkg_version tries to be intelligent -- it will go into each port directory and run "/usr/bin/make -V PKGNAME" in order to work out exactly what version of the port is in the tree, and will only use the INDEX if that fails. Unfortunately, running make(1) repeatedly makes pkg_version about 50 times slower than if it just uses the INDEX file; so if you know that the INDEX is up to date (which will be the case if you use portsnap), the -I option makes pkg_version much faster. Colin Percival
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