HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS.

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:08:16AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
 
> >"make fetchindex" runs on the order of a minute for my machine (1 Mbit/s
> >link), but I'm definitely not using "make index" on my K6-2/300.
> >
> >It's about time for a _fast_ index generator, or a cache so that only
> >changed records are replaced.
> 
> I think one has been mentioned in this thread, but since it's written in 
> perl, it's not a candidate for base-system inclusion...

Ummm... did you ever take a close look at how 'make index' works?
Substantial parts of that are written in perl.
 
> >INDEX has been an annoyance ever since but
> >no-one has a decent solution how ports can do without.
> 
> Perhaps the recent events will contribute to depart from the stalemate 
> ports have been in, with no real development going on and portupgrade being 
> 'good enough' for everybody. Perhaps it will just result in portupgrade 
> stopping depending on INDEX to the extent as it does now, which will be 
> 'good enough' again for most people.

How can something like portupgrade(1) work without the dependency
ordering information?  At the moment, that comes from the INDEX file
-- although thinking about it, it would be a lot more efficient over
all for portupgrade(1) to just work out the dependencies of any
installed ports as it goes along.  Now, that is an interesting idea.
I may have to go on a crash course of learning Ruby so I can fully
investigate that.  (Although don't hold your breath, as I've just
started a new job and ENOTIME)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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