Update hangs

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:15:53PM -0800, Mark Edwards wrote:
> This keeps happening to me, I go to do a portupgrade and I get:
> 
> lilbuddy:~ paimin$ sudo portupgrade -ra
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..
> 
> Which never stops.  I can leave it for an hour or more and it just sits 
> there.

It may take more than an hour to complete if you're not on a machine
with fast disks.

> I have to delete /usr/ports/INDEX.db and download a new one 
> using make fetchindex.
> 
> This just started a couple weeks ago.  Why does it keep getting hosed?

/usr/ports/UPDATING

Kris
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