updating pkg and ports database
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at apropo.ro
Sat Aug 7 16:43:55 PDT 2004
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:43:27 -0800
"Noah" <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a cron job that auto-cvs-updates the /usr/ports directories.
>
> I want to update the portsdb and pkgdb as soon as cvsup has completed its
> work. I am using the following two commands to do this. am I doing the right
> thing?
Yes, but you could optimize it by using sysutils/portindex instead of
portsdb -U and run portsdb -u after it finishes. Except on the first run
you will see a *big* speed improvement.
>
> ---- snip ---
>
> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -uU
> /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -Fa
>
> --- snip ---
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