portmaster options

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 12 13:31:07 UTC 2012


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.  


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