portversion runs seemingly forever

[Gunter Wambaugh]

On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Jason Henson wrote:

> On 02/22/05 19:21:43, Gunter Wambaugh wrote:
>> When I try
>> $ portversion -L =
>> it seems to run forever.
>> top yields
>>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU 
>> COMMAND
>> 51331 root      51   0 19276K 18852K RUN      0:09 90.60% 32.86% 
>> ruby18
>> I have tried portsdb -uU && pkgdb -uv, to no avail.
>> bash-2.05b# uname -a
>> FreeBSD test.thewambaughs.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon 
>> Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003     
>> root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>
> Does portversion use the index file?  If so I thought you had to cd 
> /usr/src && make fetchindex, maybe after a cvsup.  Also I seem to 
> remember using portversion -l "<" when I used to use it a while back.  
> To find the old ports.
>
> Just read the man page online, -L is a inverse limit, it excludes.  So 
> if you have not cvsuped since you last upgraded that would be why you 
> get nothing.  You say it seems to run forever, have you let it finish 
> or do you kill it?  After you do the pkgdb -uv does it still take 
> forever to finish, or does it seem to just hang?
>
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Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer.  I let portversion run for 
12+ hours before I killed it.  I just cvsuped the ports tree a few days 
ago, and make fetchindex didn't help me any.  portversion -l = says 
give me the 'up-to-date' ports.  portversion -L = says give me all the 
'out-of-date' ports.