From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 12:34:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6213C10656BD for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 12:34:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f165.google.com (mail-bw0-f165.google.com [209.85.218.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02FD8FC0A for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 12:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so3158152bwz.43 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 05:34:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=PctGFZP709UivNI1G9sEwrB6vW7KCrwnaeOuRt2SCVo=; b=ncBFXeF3Psl5qRd3pJGRUImDSOyRj8cOA/LRApHZDnP9Yb2LcN+gCCKuxTRV5+pHjy GjEGsoZE8/6+Y0sKaN013smjtgHPJWopKbhRERUVTZu9OGipsebnuwvgk9zCgKR4Rqab LCed9pvQ1RKwpCRzPUyxojrSHx0fhU/Xy29LY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=NbjKBFl8l2MvpnmFFNqx5hFP/iFgbfstXgksKlUr4lfNiS5oRbcSMEmhmcqUVSOVgG 2E1932CliUE7YFlHiGDLvXaFZT86KSQnYURTW3NajgyzC+Od+ZdSli4v/jhqQKrwrnNU bdnmBw1DkowYx5PhYPtqV+ODzzPmYaWNdZei0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.106.15 with SMTP id v15mr3551951fao.15.1243254886921; Mon, 25 May 2009 05:34:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:34:46 +0300 Message-ID: <991123400905250534pfec94e8qef12b544c70f14f4@mail.gmail.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?T2RoaWFtYm8gIOODr+OCt+ODs+ODiOODsw==?= To: Pieter Donche Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: upgrade 7 -> 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 12:34:49 -0000 On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: > I have to upgrade a few FreeBSD7 machines to FreeBSD7.2 > (this is new to me) > One machine has very few third party ports installed (33), the other > over 600 ... One of the steps is # portupgade -af, to rebuild all third > party software.. this took 27 minutes on the 33 packages machine.. AFAIK, you don't really need that (portupgrade -a) for point upgrades. Just update userland and kernel and go out for beer! > So for 20 times more packages: 10 hours ??? > Is this normal? Also, one I had one screen asking for options for libiconv > 1.11_1 > where I had to tab to OK and press enter. What is the 600 packages system > has 20 of more of such screens, I think if you set BATCH=yes in your environment or in /etc/make.conf then it should take care of that. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain