port selfupdate incredibly slow

[cowwoc]

Brandon,

     It seems a bit silly to unpack a tar file every time I run "port 
selfupdate". If I run it multiple times in a row, shouldn't it notice 
very quickly that nothing has changed? Can't you use timestamps to speed 
this up?

Gili

On 15/10/2012 7:29 PM, Brandon Allbery [via Mac OS Forge] wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:19 PM, cowwoc <[hidden email] 
> </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=197005&i=0>> wrote:
>
>         You're right. It's writing an awful lot of data. Why is that?
>     25 seconds times an average of 10MB/s (which is a conservative
>     estimate)... it's writing out around 250MB.
>
>
> I haven't updated this week yet, but:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  54497280 Oct 10 21:31 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar>
>
> is what it's unpacking.  If your question is why it's that large, I 
> cannot answer but I'm not very surprised by it.  (Note that this is 
> not compressed.)
>
> And you seem to have gotten stuck on this whole network red herring 
> again, because if your local hard drive only does 10MB/s then you have 
> far worse problems than MacPorts.  This is not doing ANY network I/O 
> unless you (and yes, I mean you, not Apple and certainly not MacPorts) 
> replaced your local hard drive with NAS; it is unpacking a (just 
> downloaded) local file to the local disk, indeed to the very same 
> directory.
>
> (The command it's running is called "tar"; run "man tar" to see what 
> it does.  While it has some ability to use the network, the command 
> you cited is not using an rmt filespec.)
>
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