port selfupdate incredibly slow

[cowwoc]

     My system isn't overloaded. It's running inside a VM. I'm running a 
script inside an automated build system. The faster the build, the 
better. Twenty five seconds might seem short to you, but in the world of 
automated builds every second matters.

     As I mentioned before, there is an easy fix. Why not implement it? 
It could be as simple as this:

 1. Every time "port selfupdate" is run, store a timestamp of the
    current time ("touch lastupdated.marker")
 2. The next time "port selfupdate" is run, compare the last-modified
    time of the tar file against the timestamp in the marker file. If
    the tar file is older, there is no need to update; otherwise, unpack
    the tar file.

     What do you think?

Thanks,
Gili

On 15/10/2012 8:35 PM, Brandon Allbery [via Mac OS Forge] wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM, cowwoc <[hidden email] 
> </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=197007&i=0>> wrote:
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>         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?
>
>
> Not really, as I understand it.  But is your system really so 
> massively overloaded, or are you really in such a hurry?  Shaving 25 
> seconds off of selfupdate doesn't seem like it's worth fighting over.
>
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