registry.db getting rather obese (> 600MB) and updates very slow. Anything to do?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:18 PM Ken Cunningham
<ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On one of my systems, 10.5 PPC, things are taking a long time when uninstalling a port - like 4-5 minutes of heavy tcl interpreter use.
>
> The registry.db is pretty huge:
>
> $ ls -la
> total 1286264
> drwxr-xr-x     7 root  admin        238 21 Jun 11:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x@   15 root  admin        510 18 Dec  2018 ..
> -rw-r--r--     1 root  admin          0 21 Jun 10:59 .registry.lock
> -rw-rw-r--     1 root  admin          0  1 Oct  2015 .turd_MacPorts
> drwxr-xr-x  2954 root  admin     100436 21 Jun 10:59 portfiles
> drwxr-xr-x   185 root  admin       6290 13 Jun 19:51 portgroups
> -rw-r--r--     1 root  admin  658564096 21 Jun 11:06 registry.db

Another PowerMac 10.5 datapoint, if it is helpful:

$ ls -Al
total 115880
-rw-r--r--    1 root  admin         0 Jun 20 00:07 .registry.lock
-rw-rw-r--    1 root  admin         0 Oct  1  2015 .turd_MacPorts
drwxr-xr-x  207 root  admin      7038 Jun 20 00:07 portfiles
drwxr-xr-x   55 root  admin      1870 Jun 20 00:02 portgroups
-rw-r--r--    1 root  admin  59329536 Jun 20 00:07 registry.db

My MacPorts update recipe is as follows.

    /opt/local/bin/port selfupdate
    /opt/local/bin/port upgrade outdated
    /opt/local/bin/port clean inactive
    /opt/local/bin/port -f uninstall inactive

Jeff