portupgrade after cvsup always rebuilds /usr/ports/INDEX
Mark Evenson
evenson at panix.com
Tue Nov 16 14:02:05 PST 2004
Alec Berryman <alec at thened.net> writes:
> begin quotation of Mark Evenson on 2004-11-16 10:34:58 -0500:
>
> > After running a cvsup of /usr/ports, portupgrade now always rebuilds the
> > /usr/ports/INDEX file which takes a *long* time.
[...]
>
> Yes. This has been discussed at length recently on this list. 'make
> fetchindex' has been updated; you might want to take a look at using
> that.
Indeed. Thanks for the pointer.
I did look at the last week or so via the subject headers, via Thunderbird
searching the news.gmane.org archives via a supposed "Full Text" search,
and via "Classic " Google without success. Odd that.
--
Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com>
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is
nothing to compare to it now."
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