portindex updates

[William Davis]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Joshua Root wrote:

> William Davis wrote:
>> I'll try one more time: Ryan made a change that will cause  
>> portindex to
>> be updated all at once by building it in a temp file and then
>> overwritting the old file all at once.
>> THEREFORE
>> there will be no problem with sections of portindex being locked when
>> someone runs selfupdate.
>> THEREFORE
>> unless there are other constrains, it should now be possible to  
>> update
>> portindex more often without end-users having problems.
>
> Server-side, the new PortIndex is only committed to svn after it is
> finished being regenerated, so an end user could never get a partial
> index from rsync.
>
> The issue with there being a partial index was only present when the
> index in a local ports tree was rebuilt. The one advantage to end  
> users
> of updating the PortIndex more often would be that new ports would be
> available sooner.
>
> - Josh


No doubt you are quite right.  Still I wonder where those error mesgs  
saying something about port foo being updated I sometimes get inserted  
into the middle of the file list as its copyed down come from......

But! getting updates more often was indeed the point......

William Davis
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