FreeBSD 5.3 Questions

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:45:18 -0600, Greg Donald <destiney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:07:06 -0700, Tom Connolly <tomc at cqg.com> wrote:
> > It takes my machine about 1 hour to generate the index.  Be patient and
> > it will complete.
> 
> Previously I had FreeBSD 4.10 on my P133 and portupgrade -anrR took 3-4 minutes.
> 
> Last week I upgraded to FreeBSd 5.3 and now portupgrade -anrR takes 5
> hours or more.
> 
> > A faster method is to fetch the index.
> 
> How do you do that, and did you mean instead of portupgrade -anrR ?
> Please explain.

run "cd /usr/ports; make fetchindex".

Panagiotis