> On 26 Sep 2022, at 7:35 pm, Arjun Salyan <ar...@macports.org> wrote: > > > >> On 26-Sep-2022, at 3:06 AM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> Its always been a limitation of the site that it can only report the deps >> for a single platform, but its a bit of a shame that platform also isn’t >> actually a macOS version. >> >> Instead of generating the portindex itself, running on linux, would it not >> work if instead it just grabbed the index from the macports buildbots, as >> also distributed to uses ? Say for the most recent OS. Using this instead of >> generating its own would at least make the results correct for one platform. > > We used to do this earlier. But we decided to use a local copy of PortIndex > to achieve faster updates to the port information. It is still very much > possible to just fetch the portindex from rsync but it runs somewhat behind. > > Right now we update the port information every 10 minutes (possible to do > even more frequently). With rsync we are limited at around an hour (maybe > more or less, I do not remember the exact lag). > > But while we are at it, other than dependencies what else is not showing very > “reliable” information? If it just dependencies, then we can explore > possibility of getting just the dependencies from shared PortIndex (even show > the OS?).
FWIW I personally would also favour more correct over a bit faster any day of the week… so if switching back to rsync would allow the stats to reflect say the most recent OS precisely, for me thats a price worth paying.
