portupgrade and index

[Lowell Gilbert]

"dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> writes:

>     I've got a box that runs portupgrade to keep the most current ports.
> I've lately switched to make fetchindex vs. portsdb -uU which goes much
> faster. My problem is whenever i do a make search for a port the index.5
> file is regenerated and that takes an extremely long time. I was wondering
> if this is normal behavior, and what if anything i could do to speed it up?


That certainly doesn't happen to me.  Are you sure you *have* a
/usr/ports/INDEX-5 before the rebuild gets triggered?