portupgrade O(n^m)?

[Coleman Kane]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote, and it was proclaimed:
> On 2/15/07, Coleman Kane <zombyfork at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 2/15/07, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Quoting Olivier Warin <daffy at xview.net> (from Wed, 14 Feb 2007
> >> 19:54:09 +0100):
> >>
> >> > This issue is not only related to portupgrade, pkg_add a new port takes
> >> > far too long now... and make index each time I upgrade my ports is
> >> > awfull too.
> >>
> >> Regarding "make index": try "make fetchindex" right after the cvsup.
> >> IT may not be up to the point with the cvsupped stuff, but not far off.
> >>
> >> Bye,
> >> Alexander.
> >
> >
> >
> >I don't think we who use the modular X.org tree can do this since a number
> >of the ports won't be properly registered in the file (or am I off-base
> >here?).
> >--
> >Coleman
> 
> We who use the modular xorg tree cant do make fetchindex, we have to
> do make index... I've never had any problem with portupgrade taking
> forever to run if i've done a make index and a portsdb -u before
> running. But then again, I only have somewhere around 350 ports at the
> moment.
> 
> //Niclas

I have over 1000 ports installed and it can be annoyingly slow. I don't
completely know if the "portupgrade" script is the 100% culprit though,
as it calls a number of other programs during execution.

--
coleman