Re: portupgrade and index

From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-local_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 11/30/04

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    To: dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>
    Date: 30 Nov 2004 09:33:28 -0500
    
    

    "dave" <dmehler26@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?
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