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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:26:33 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: make index
Message-ID:  <200501281026.33698.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <ef60af09050128101048545276@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ef60af09050128101048545276@mail.gmail.com>

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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

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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