Correct Way to Update the Ports

[Alec Berryman]

begin  quotation of Gerard Seibert on 2004-11-30 19:33:32 -0500:

> I am still not sure that I understand this entire ports concept. I,
> like others I would assume, have found the time that 'portsdb -Uu'
> takes to run to completion unacceptable.

You should run 'make fetchindex' before 'portsdb -Uu'; after a cvsup,
there's no index, so portupgrade calls for one to be made.  Much
faster to fetch the index.
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