On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:14:54 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > It's really not appropriate to hijack the portupgrade thread for this, > so I'm starting a new subject. Also, please respect followups to -ports. > > Alex Goncharov wrote: >> Don't remember everything of that sort but here are a couple of things >> I would like to ask portmaster users' opinion and advice about: >> >> 1. I see a significant difference in the time it takes to get the same >> information using the two tools: > > As I understand it, portupgrade uses the INDEX file to determine whether > ports are up to date.
Actually I think it uses bdb "cache" of index (INDEX-7.db) and also lies about it (says "up-to-date with port" instead of "up-to-date with index"). It's not even doing a good job at it, standard pkg_version significantly outperforms it: # time portversion -v | wc -l 769 real 0m15.027s user 0m9.235s sys 0m5.173s # time pkg_version -Iv | wc -l 769 real 0m4.707s user 0m3.648s sys 0m0.798s _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"