portversion runs seemingly forever

[Gunter Wambaugh]

When I try
$ portversion -L =

it seems to run forever.

top yields
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
51331 root 51 0 19276K 18852K RUN 0:09 90.60% 32.86% ruby18

I have tried portsdb -uU && pkgdb -uv, to no avail.

bash-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD test.thewambaughs.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon
Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003
[email]root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Any ideas?

[Jason Henson]

On 02/22/05 19:21:43, Gunter Wambaugh wrote:

> When I try
> $ portversion -L =
>
> it seems to run forever.
>
> top yields
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU
> COMMAND
> 51331 root 51 0 19276K 18852K RUN 0:09 90.60% 32.86%
> ruby18
>
> I have tried portsdb -uU && pkgdb -uv, to no avail.
>
> bash-2.05b# uname -a
> FreeBSD test.thewambaughs.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon
> Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 [email]root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca[/email]:/usr/obj/
> usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> Any ideas?
>

Does portversion use the index file? If so I thought you had to cd /
usr/src && make fetchindex, maybe after a cvsup. Also I seem to
remember using portversion -l "<" when I used to use it a while back.
To find the old ports.

Just read the man page online, -L is a inverse limit, it excludes. So
if you have not cvsuped since you last upgraded that would be why you
get nothing. You say it seems to run forever, have you let it finish
or do you kill it? After you do the pkgdb -uv does it still take
forever to finish, or does it seem to just hang?

[Gunter Wambaugh]

On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Jason Henson wrote:

> On 02/22/05 19:21:43, Gunter Wambaugh wrote:

>> When I try
>> $ portversion -L =
>> it seems to run forever.
>> top yields
>> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU
>> COMMAND
>> 51331 root 51 0 19276K 18852K RUN 0:09 90.60% 32.86%
>> ruby18
>> I have tried portsdb -uU && pkgdb -uv, to no avail.
>> bash-2.05b# uname -a
>> FreeBSD test.thewambaughs.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon
>> Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003
>> [email]root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>> Any ideas?
>>

>
>
> Does portversion use the index file? If so I thought you had to cd
> /usr/src && make fetchindex, maybe after a cvsup. Also I seem to
> remember using portversion -l "<" when I used to use it a while back.
> To find the old ports.
>
> Just read the man page online, -L is a inverse limit, it excludes. So
> if you have not cvsuped since you last upgraded that would be why you
> get nothing. You say it seems to run forever, have you let it finish
> or do you kill it? After you do the pkgdb -uv does it still take
> forever to finish, or does it seem to just hang?
>
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Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer. I let portversion run for
12+ hours before I killed it. I just cvsuped the ports tree a few days
ago, and make fetchindex didn't help me any. portversion -l = says
give me the 'up-to-date' ports. portversion -L = says give me all the
'out-of-date' ports.

[Jason Henson]

>
> Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer. I let portversion run for
> 12+ hours before I killed it. I just cvsuped the ports tree a few
> days ago, and make fetchindex didn't help me any. portversion -l =
> says give me the 'up-to-date' ports. portversion -L = says give me
> all the 'out-of-date' ports.
>

Just scrap that and use portmanager. It is small, lightweight, and
does not need ruby. On my machine with ule and folding@home running
time make gives me
13.644u 11.247s 0:35.40 70.2% 2529+991k 291+53io 489pf+0w

And you don't need an index!