On 22.04.2015 12:28 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday April 22 2015 12:14:09 Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>> The portindex is generated on the rsync machine, which is running Linux. If 
>> doing funky stuff that happens to abort Portfile parsing ungracefully (like 
>> not wrapping sysctl stuff in "catch"), the index will be stale for these 
>> ports.
> 
> I was under the impression that it's also run locally as part of a selfupdate?

IIRC selfupdate is using the pre-generated index. Otherwise people who update 
very rarely would see a huge slowdown.



Mihai


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