Wildly different numbers of portsnap updates between i386 and amd64?

2013-09-21 Thread Christian Campbell
Hi. I run 9.1-RELEASE on two boxes: one i386 and the other amd64. I've run the latter for a bit over a week. When I portsnap update, the 32-bit machine typically gets several to dozens or hundreds of updates, while the 64-bit machine typically gets none, or maybe a couple. What might be the

Re: Wildly different numbers of portsnap updates between i386 and amd64?

2013-09-21 Thread Robert Simmons
The update is a delta from what is already on your system. When you updated the older box, you pulled in lots of changes to get it current. The newer box needed fewer updates to get current. Or something is wrong. You can always delete the contents of /ports and the database in /var/db/portsnap.