Colin Percival wrote:
martinko wrote:
Colin Percival wrote:
portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL=
what is this "I" parameter to pkg_version supposed to be?
i don't seem to have it here on 5.4R.
It's a new flag in 6.0R; it means "just use the INDEX, you stupid
program". ;-)
Without that flag, pkg_version tries to be intelligent -- it will
go into each port directory and run "/usr/bin/make -V PKGNAME" in
order to work out exactly what version of the port is in the tree,
and will only use the INDEX if that fails.
Unfortunately, running make(1) repeatedly makes pkg_version about
50 times slower than if it just uses the INDEX file; so if you know
that the INDEX is up to date (which will be the case if you use
portsnap), the -I option makes pkg_version much faster.
Colin Percival
many thanks for your explanation and many thanks for the new functionality!
m:)
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