The reason why you now see the full list of ports when you sync your tree, as opposed to a delta with only the files that have seen changes since your last sync, is that I changed the way in which the rsync repos feeding your ports and base trees are populated. The operation used to involve an svn checkout of the ports and base trees and then an rsync (excluding certain files and dirs) from that checkout onto the rsync repos, wherefrom users get them through sync/ selfupdate. Now we don't just rsync the svn checkout onto the rsync server with some particular flags to exclude files we don't want in there, like .svn control dirs, but instead we "svn export" the trees to prepare them in a more formal fashion before pushing them to the rsync server. That operation presumably resets a timestamp on each file and dir and that's why you pull the entire thing again when you sync/selfupdate after each half an hour (the periodicity of the rsync server re-population). In other words, we were preparing the rsync repos rather manually before and now we let "svn export" do that for us. The entire process is described in the script I re-wrote and in the config file detailing the rsync server setup: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/ mprsyncup http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/ rsync.repos Improvements to the mprsyncup script are welcome, I personally don't like pulling the entire thing over and over again after every half an hour either, but I do like relying on "svn export". I'm sure there are rsync flags we could use to recover the delta part of the old behavior while still keeping "svn export", but I just haven't had the time to investigate. Again, suggestions/improvements are welcome! ;-) Regards,... -jmpp On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Mark Hattam wrote:
I have MacPorts 1.4.2 on OSX 10.4.10
Whenever I've done a port sync recently (and I do it most days), I seem to be downloading the whole heirarchy every time, and none of my ports are outdated when I do a port outdated. I used to just get a listing of the ports that had changed when I did a sudo port -d selfupdate, I can't believe that everything is updated every day. Maybe it is subtly changing every day, but it just seems to be the same long list every day ...
For instance
Last login: Thu Jul 5 00:13:06 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! powerbook:~ user$ sudo port -d selfupdate Password: DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. DEBUG: Synchronizing dports tree(s) Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done ./ aqua/ aqua/Affiche/ aqua/AppKiDo/ aqua/AquaLess/ aqua/ArpSpyX/ aqua/AssignmentTrackerX/ aqua/BigSQL/ aqua/BigSQL/files/
... and so on ...
zope/zope-zphotoslides/files/ zope/zope-zsyncer/ PortIndex aqua/Growl/files/patch-Growl.xcodeproj__project.pbxproj.i386 aqua/Growl/files/patch-Growl.xcodeproj__project.pbxproj.powerpc aqua/Growl/files/patch-Makefile databases/mysql5/Portfile databases/sqlite3/Portfile databases/sqlite3/files/patch-Makefile.in devel/dialog/Portfile
... and so on ...
textproc/libmrss/Portfile textproc/libnxml/Portfile deleting textproc/libmrss/files/patch-src-mrss_parser.c deleting directory textproc/libmrss/files
sent 9951 bytes received 287107 bytes 13202.58 bytes/sec total size is 14699706 speedup is 49.48 DEBUG: MacPorts base dir: /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/ rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base DEBUG: Setting user: root DarwinPorts base version 1.442 installed DEBUG: Updating using rsync receiving file list ... done ./ Mk/ config/ doc/ doc/exampleport/ portmgr/ portmgr/bots/ portmgr/dmg/ src/ src/cflib1.0/ src/darwinports1.0/ src/darwintracelib1.0/ src/package1.0/ src/pextlib1.0/ src/pextlib1.0/tests/ src/port/ src/port1.0/ src/port1.0/resources/ src/port1.0/resources/fetch/ src/port1.0/resources/group/ src/port1.0/resources/package/ src/port1.0/tests/ src/portindex/ src/programs/ src/programs/daemondo/ src/registry1.0/ tests/ tests/test/ tests/test/checksums-1/ tests/test/cvs-and-patchsites/ tests/test/dependencies-a/ tests/test/dependencies-b/ tests/test/dependencies-c/ tests/test/envvariables/ tests/test/site-tags/ tests/test/trace/ tests/test/universal/ tests/test/universal-2/ tests/test/xcodeversion/
sent 77 bytes received 4957 bytes 2013.60 bytes/sec total size is 2093103 speedup is 415.79 Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.442 The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated DEBUG: Setting ownership to root selfupdate done! _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users