Ports not listed as outdated

Mihai Moldovan ionic at macports.org
Wed Apr 22 03:25:05 PDT 2015


On 22.04.2015 12:28 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday April 22 2015 12:14:09 Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>> The portindex is generated on the rsync machine, which is running Linux. If doing funky stuff that happens to abort Portfile parsing ungracefully (like not wrapping sysctl stuff in "catch"), the index will be stale for these ports.
> 
> I was under the impression that it's also run locally as part of a selfupdate?

IIRC selfupdate is using the pre-generated index. Otherwise people who update very rarely would see a huge slowdown.



Mihai


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