Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
There isn't any reason to run pkgdb -F but Kris updates the INDEX file at an infrequent rate. If he updated it everytime a port changed, some computer would spend all of its time generating INDEX.I've read somewhere that after a cvsup of my /usr/ports is is wise to run "portsdb -Uu", maybe even followed by a "pkgdb -F"Is this really true? Especially portsdb takes quit some time to run, so if it's ok not to run.. ;-))
Your port system support software needs an INDEX with a current set of dependancies. You also need INDEX.db if you use portupgrade. I haven't run portsdb -U recently; however, in the near past, it produced incomplete dependancies and I have my scripts that I use to cvsup ports-akk setup to also
cd /usr/ports
make index
portsdb -u
I do this everytime I cvsup. On my fast machine, the make index takes 11 minutes, which is slower than a portsdb -U.
Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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