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Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ?
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David Wolfskill wrote:
>>Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection
>>to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a
>couple of days ....
>
>Hmm....  You may find "portupgrade -aF" ("just fetch") useful during
>periods when you don't especially want to destabilize the machine, but
>you have connectivity.

Or if you have access to another machine with a fast connection and a
CD burner, you could use "-n" (don't do anything) to see what packages
would be upgraded, fetch those distfiles on the other machine, and
bring them to your dialup-connected machine on a CD.

Rahul