On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:42:10 +0000 (UTC), jb wrote: > 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 :-)
But this? # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' /tmp/d-87852-index/INDEX-9.bz2 100% of 1619 kB 125 kBps 00m00s Terminated This is with --index and _no_ ports collection in the default location (example quoted from your message)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
