On 7/5/07, Mark Hattam <mark@dxradio.demon.co.uk> 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recently (and I do it most days), I seem to be downloading the whole heirarchy every time, and none of my ports are outdated when I do a port outdated.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 ...

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. I just did "port -v sync" and here's what I found. I get the same list you saw, then these filenames: 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/mysql5/files/patch-mysys-base64.c.diff databases/sqlite3/Portfile databases/sqlite3/files/patch-Makefile.in devel/dialog/Portfile devel/libsdl/Portfile devel/libsdl/files/patch-AudioFilePlayer.h devel/libsdl/files/patch-SDL_coreaudio.c editors/vim-app/Portfile editors/vim-app/files/patchlist editors/vim/Portfile editors/vim/files/patchlist graphics/cairo/Portfile lang/yasm/Portfile print/freetype/Portfile print/gutenprint/Portfile python/py-kid/Portfile python/py-yum-metadata-parser/Portfile sysutils/repoview/Portfile sysutils/repoview/files/patch-repoview.py sysutils/rpm/Portfile sysutils/rpm/files/patch-configure sysutils/rpm/files/patch-macros.in textproc/libmrss/Portfile textproc/libnxml/Portfile deleting textproc/libmrss/files/patch-src-mrss_parser.c deleting directory textproc/libmrss/files deleting databases/mysql5/files/patch-mysys-base64.c so I got some new files, some instructions were run, then this summary: sent 10053 bytes received 290465 bytes 2931.88 bytes/sec total size is 14699737 speedup is 48.91 I sent received more than I sent, so there is some new stuff to be reviewed with "port outdated." I think selfupdate with the debug flag is less useful than sync with the verbose flag. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@mac.com>