RW <rwmaillists <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 +0000 (UTC)
> jb wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > what is the diff between
> > --index
> > and
> > --index-only
>
> From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use
> the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded
> into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations are skipped or done
> less efficiently.
> ...
# ls -al /usr/ports/
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26881412 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26765446 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26715339 Oct 12 13:28 INDEX-9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1658547 Oct 12 12:01 INDEX-9.bz2
...
#
# find /tmp -name "*INDEX*"
# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
===>>> 618 total installed ports
===>>> 1 has a new version available
# find /tmp -name "*INDEX*"
Nope :-)
jb
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