On 07/05/2007 16:14, "Mark Hattam" <mark@dxradio.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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recently (and I do it most days), I seem to be downloading the whole heirarchy every time, and none of my ports are outdated when I do a port outdated.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 ...
Consider this: $ denbuen[509] > sudo port -d sync [ lots of output, lots of packages seemingly updated ] $ denbuen[510] > sudo port install erlang ---> Activating erlang R11B-5_0 ---> Cleaning erlang $ denbuen[511] > sudo port -d sync DEBUG: Synchronizing dports tree(s) Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done lang/erlang/ sent 77 bytes received 268885 bytes 28311.79 bytes/sec total size is 14699737 speedup is 54.65 $ denbuen[512] > Note that I had the latest erlang before doing that `sudo port install erlang`. So presumably many port operations cause rsync to pull an update. Probably any time you upgrade, activate, or install a package (or any dependency), you will see an rsync update. -Denis