portsdb -Uu hung
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Wed Nov 29 07:15:47 PST 2006
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Are you *sure* it's hung? -U does a "make index" in /usr/ports which
> takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*.
> If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider
> running "make fetchindex" from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest
> pre-built version and then just doing "portsdb -u", though anything
> that needs the .db file to be up-to-date will do this automatically.
Just seen that portsdb -F will fetch the index and the man page even
recommends running portsdb -Fu (not -Uu) after a cvsup.
If -Fu still hangs for you, then you really do have a problem.
--Alex
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