FreeBSD 5.3 Questions

[Tom Connolly]

> 4) I installed portupgrade from the port, and built the database using
>    'pkgdb -f', but whenever I run portupgrade or portversion, it
>    displays a message "Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.." and
>    hangs there forever. How do I fix this?
> 
> - Jerry

Jerry,
It takes my machine about 1 hour to generate the index.  Be patient and
it will complete.  A faster method is to fetch the index.

Tom