Lots of installed ports show "succeeds index"

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Thu Jul 24 12:16:52 UTC 2014


On 2014-07-23, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> 'pkg version' priorities changed between repository catalogue, ports
> index and generating the info out of the ports tree directly.  Now if
> you have an INDEX file, pkg version will read that for preference, as
> it's only about a zillion times faster than what it used to do, which
> involves running make(1) in a bunch of ports.
>
> If you want the old behaviour either delete the INDEX file or use the -P
> flag.

-P does most certainly not provide the old behavior.  pkg version
took a few seconds, now it takes two minutes on the same machine.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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