Why is pkg version taking so long?

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 20:15:18 UTC 2020


Never mind. I had a corrupt /usr/ports/Makefile.
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:19 AM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I ran "pkg version -vl\<" to see what ports had been updated. This
> usually ran in a few seconds. Today it had provided no output after a much
> longer time and I noticed it was running a "make flavors-package-names" on
> a large number of the ports installed; perhaps all of them. It ran for over
> 2 minutes.
>
> Did I clobber a cache of some sort? Can it be fixed? Is this a bug?
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