On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:05:22PM -0500, William Davis said:
On Nov 9, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Nov 9, 2008, at 21:12, William Davis wrote:
On Nov 9, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Nov 9, 2008, at 08:03, William Davis wrote:
RSS just told me:
Commit by [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: r41701
/trunk/base/src/port/portindex.tcl: (link)
http://trac.macports.org/changeset/41701
portindex.tcl: Generate the port index in a temporary file
first, then replace the PortIndex file all at once; fixes #16234
If this is the case cant we easily update the index more than
twice a day now? Perhaps even every half hour?
I don't think my commit changes anything for the frequency of
portindex updates. All it does is make sure that until the new
portindex is done being regenerated, the old portindex is still
around so it can be used by other port operations.
I don't know why the portindex is only regenerated every 12 hours.
Ryan, I know you didnt change the update frequency. My point was
that with your change in place it seems possible AFTERWARDS to
update the index more frequently now that the old index can be used
while the new one is building.
I didn't think the server used the portindex for anything.
It doesnt as far I know, but the people who are running selfupdate
do,
dont they?
That change to portindex only affects when you run it, using
selfupdate
simply gets the new PortIndex from the server. Hence, this
shouldn't be
affecting you unless you also have a local repository and run
portindex on
it (which I think was the initial reason for the ticket which
resulted in
the change).
Bryan
I'll try one more time: Ryan made a change that will cause portindex
to be updated all at once by building it in a temp file and then
overwritting the old file all at once.
THEREFORE
there will be no problem with sections of portindex being locked when
someone runs selfupdate.
THEREFORE
unless there are other constrains, it should now be possible to update
portindex more often without end-users having problems.
Im speaking here from the end-user's point of view.
William Davis
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