On Dec 4, 2011, at 17:30, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Atomically, meaning all or nothing?
> 
> Atomically in that we don't provide the new index until the process has 
> completed. It seems that we get broken portindexes (ports missing) when 
> people update while it's being rebuilt.

Well you definitely shouldn't be trying to do anything else with MacPorts while 
a selfupdate or sync is running.

Still, I had fixed this three years ago:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16234

That was before portindex was changed to no longer regenerate the whole thing 
each time, so I'm not sure if it's gotten broken again since then.

> The same issue manifested on the site when someone might visit when it 
> reports that MacPorts only has 10 packages.

Is that still happening?


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