<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hattam</b> <<a href="mailto:mark@dxradio.demon.co.uk">mark@dxradio.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have MacPorts 1.4.2 on OSX 10.4.10<br><br>Whenever I've done a port sync recently (and I do it most days), I<br>seem to be downloading the whole heirarchy every time, and none of my<br>ports are outdated when I do a port outdated. I used to just get a
<br>listing of the ports that had changed when I did a sudo port -d<br>selfupdate, I can't believe that everything is updated every day.<br>Maybe it is subtly changing every day, but it just seems to be the<br>same long list every day ...
<br></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>It's not that everything changes every day when you see that list: those are just the things that get checked to see if they've changed, as far as I know.
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I just did "port -v sync" and here's what I found. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I get the same list you saw, then these filenames:
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote>aqua/Growl/files/patch-Growl.xcodeproj__project.pbxproj.i386</blockquote><blockquote>aqua/Growl/files/patch-Growl.xcodeproj__project.pbxproj.powerpc</blockquote>
<blockquote>aqua/Growl/files/patch-Makefile</blockquote><blockquote>databases/mysql5/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>databases/mysql5/files/patch-mysys-base64.c.diff</blockquote><blockquote>databases/sqlite3/Portfile</blockquote>
<blockquote>databases/sqlite3/files/patch-<a href="http://Makefile.in">Makefile.in</a></blockquote><blockquote>devel/dialog/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>devel/libsdl/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>devel/libsdl/files/patch-
AudioFilePlayer.h</blockquote><blockquote>devel/libsdl/files/patch-SDL_coreaudio.c</blockquote><blockquote>editors/vim-app/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>editors/vim-app/files/patchlist</blockquote><blockquote>editors/vim/Portfile
</blockquote><blockquote>editors/vim/files/patchlist</blockquote><blockquote>graphics/cairo/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>lang/yasm/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>print/freetype/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>print/gutenprint/Portfile
</blockquote><blockquote>python/py-kid/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>python/py-yum-metadata-parser/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>sysutils/repoview/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>sysutils/repoview/files/patch-repoview.py
</blockquote><blockquote>sysutils/rpm/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>sysutils/rpm/files/patch-configure</blockquote><blockquote>sysutils/rpm/files/patch-<a href="http://macros.in">macros.in</a></blockquote><blockquote>textproc/libmrss/Portfile
</blockquote><blockquote>textproc/libnxml/Portfile</blockquote><blockquote>deleting textproc/libmrss/files/patch-src-mrss_parser.c</blockquote><blockquote>deleting directory textproc/libmrss/files</blockquote><blockquote>
deleting databases/mysql5/files/patch-mysys-base64.c</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>so I got some new files, some instructions were run, then this summary:</div></div><div><blockquote>sent 10053 bytes received 290465 bytes
2931.88 bytes/sec</blockquote><blockquote>total size is 14699737 speedup is 48.91</blockquote><div>I sent received more than I sent, so there is some new stuff to be reviewed with "port outdated."</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>I think selfupdate with the debug flag is less useful than sync with the verbose flag.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-- <br>Paul Beard / <a href="http://www.paulbeard.org/">www.paulbeard.org/
</a><br><<a href="http://paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@mac.com">paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@mac.com</a>><br>
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