Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:15:37 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu hung Message-ID: <456DA419.4030403@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <456DA196.6040505@dial.pipex.com> References: <87psb85yii.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> <44y7pujox4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <456DA196.6040505@dial.pipex.com>
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Are you *sure* it's hung? -U does a "make index" in /usr/ports which > takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*. > If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider > running "make fetchindex" from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest > pre-built version and then just doing "portsdb -u", though anything > that needs the .db file to be up-to-date will do this automatically. Just seen that portsdb -F will fetch the index and the man page even recommends running portsdb -Fu (not -Uu) after a cvsup. If -Fu still hangs for you, then you really do have a problem. --Alex
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