Re: portupgrade and index

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:57:34 -0800
To: dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>

    On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:48:29PM -0500, dave wrote:
    > Hello,
    > 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?

    make fetchindex

    Kris

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