Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:20:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <20070519191807.K52261@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <464F8B9C.9050607@u.washington.edu> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <4645FF71.60100@gmx.de> <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu> <4646193E.5040503@gmx.de> <464665D5.1090509@math.missouri.edu> <464676CC.2000203@math.missouri.edu> <46469BF5.9030603@math.missouri.edu> <1179058696.13237.3.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070513101332.L82202@math.missouri.edu> <46479215.1080401@math.missouri.edu> <4647C4FB.9050607@math.missouri.edu> <4647F182.6000402@gmx.de> <46487491.6020806@math.missouri.edu> <46488168.3030300@math.missouri.edu> <464B155A.1080105@math.missouri.edu> <464B7144.2000600@math.missouri.edu> <1179353641.79329.11.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <20070517114436.3fdd55b1@deskjail> <464C5338.2090300@math.missouri.edu> <464F8B9C.9050607@u.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 19 May 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > My lord.. now I see what everyone means in terms of taking a long > time to update the ports / package databases. If you use portsnap, it doesn't > take a long time. However, if you use csup/cvsup, it appears to take a long > time running make and ruby (primarily disk I/O), to update all of the > databases. It took approximately 3-5 minutes to complete on a P4 3.0 GHz, so > I'd hate to see how long it takes to finish on a slower machine =\... > Maybe this is where Stephen's revisions to pkg_add and bsd.ports.mk > would come in handy. > -Garrett I would love to help, but I'm a plain vanilla "make install" person, and I haven't yet learned all these fancy programs like portinstall. What specific program are you refering to that takes so long to execute? Assume that I have no experience with using these tools. Then I will see if I can make that faster too. (But my first guess is that I won't be able to.)
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