portindex updates

[William Davis]

On Nov 9, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Nov 9, 2008, at 9:03 AM, William Davis wrote:
>> Commit by ryandesign at macports.org :: r41701 /trunk/base/src/port/ 
>> portindex.tcl: (link)
>> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/41701
>> portindex.tcl: Generate the port index in a temporary file first,  
>> then replace the PortIndex file all at once; fixes #16234
>>
>> If this is the case cant we easily update the index more than twice  
>> a day now?  Perhaps even every half hour?
>
>
> portindex is an annoyingly expensive operation. I don't know if the  
> added load on the macports servers would be worth it?
>
> If someone gets around to implementing an incremental portindex  
> option (say we store the index in an sqlite database and we add a  
> post-commit hook that just updates the index entries for the ports  
> that were just committed) then we could probably have an always up- 
> to-date index without the huge resource requirements.
>
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> Daniel J. Luke
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I have written an enhancement request ticket on this:
Ticket #17157 (new enhancement)


William Davis
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