Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:49:50 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make index Message-ID: <200501281049.50926.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <ef60af09050128103160b9a4bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af09050128101048545276@mail.gmail.com> <200501281026.33698.kstewart@owt.com> <ef60af09050128103160b9a4bb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 28 January 2005 10:31 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > 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 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
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