web FreeBSD Ports Search is out of sync
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 2 08:26:11 UTC 2012
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:12:45 +0000
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On 02/12/2012 06:50, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> > It takes about half an hour on my dog slow intel atom D510. Is there
> > anything in the works to speed up 'make index'? I understand that
> > the slowest part is the evaluation of dependencies, is that right?
>
> The slow part is parsing around 25,000 Makefiles ( + reading about
> 25000 pkg-descr files, but that's relatively quick) in order to
> extract the values of certain variables. make(1) typically takes
> about 200ms per Makefile, which is ages. Speedups are possible:
> parallelization (which is what make index does) or cacheing the
> results and only rerunning make when changes could affect the output
> (which is what FreeBSD::Portindex does)
>
> Once you've done all that Makefile processing, chasing all the
> dependencies is fairly quick.
>
> A great deal of time and effort has been spent on making 'make index'
> run as fast as possible. All the easy optimizations and many of the
> not-so-easy ones have already been applied. Further improvement would
> probably require a radical 'throw it away and write something better
> from scratch' approach, which I'm not at all sure is worth it since
> for the most part, the ports works just fine without any sort of
> index at all, and it is the various websites that essentially show
> nicely formatted data from the INDEX that would really benefit.
BTW, I'm seeing this on my machines:
Checking timestamps on options makefiles: cache-update: WARNING unknown options file "/var/db/ports/rsync/options" -- ignored
cache-update: WARNING unknown options file "/var/db/ports/subversion/options" -- ignored
cache-update: WARNING unknown options file "/var/db/ports/apr/options" -- ignored
cache-update: WARNING unknown options file "/var/db/ports/python27/options" -- ignored
cache-update: WARNING unknown options file "/var/db/ports/m4/options" -- ignored
cache-update: WARNING unknown options file "/var/db/ports/help2man/options" -- ignored
cache-update:1: Checking for category changes at www
....
# cat /var/db/ports/rsync/options
# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# Options for rsync-3.0.9_2
_OPTIONS_READ=rsync-3.0.9_2
_FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=ACL ATIMES FLAGS ICONV POPT_PORT RENAMED SSH TIMELIMIT
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=ACL
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=ATIMES
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=FLAGS
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=ICONV
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=POPT_PORT
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=RENAMED
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=SSH
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=TIMELIMIT
Any hints? Is it the fact that it's in the OPTIONSng format?
Thanks,
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