On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Michel Talon wrote:

Warren Block writes:

portmaster -L | filterfu:  43.6
pkg_version -vl'<':        30.5
portversion -vl'<':         3.6
portmaster -L --index-only: 2.5

I don't have the same experience by far:
on a jail i have:

.....
===>>> 68 total installed ports
       ===>>> 61 have new versions available
portmaster -L --index-only  0.76s user 1.65s system 6% cpu 38.871 total

So it takes 38s on a *very small* installation.

The times are relative, of course, and mine are not from a jail. If there's a new index file, it will be downloaded and that is entirely dependent on bandwidth. For comparison, on a little system here with only 71 ports, the --index-only version takes 4.7 seconds when a new index is retrieved, and 1.2 seconds alone.

My experience is that all FreeBSD ports tools are incredibly slow, be it portupgrade, portmaster, even the basic tools like pkg_version. Maybe it would help to recognize that such observations are perhaps not unrelated to the original poster comments.

I don't understand what you mean by that last sentence. OP was talking about the difficulty of using or merging alternate ports trees, AFAIR. Sorry about the topic drift; we can start a new thread if appropriate.
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