Big port update?

Zare

Zare

Just updated my tree, last updated about month ago. It pulled in several thousand of new files/patches. What's about that?
 
I'm pretty sure that whenever you update the ports tree only once a month you will be inundated with files and patches. "Thousands" sounds about right, and "over 10,000" would not surprise me. If you only update once a month, you might as well check out a whole new ports tree instead of overloading your system trying to patch thousands upon thousands of files and directories.
 
There were tons of port updates that were not real updates (changing almost all the Makefile files for some reason, for example) recently. Mostly harmless :-)
 
Still, with update intervals of one month or more, running

[cmd=]rm /var/db/portsnap/tag && portsnap fetch extract[/cmd]

will save you a lot of time, disk thrashing, and CPU cycles.
 
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