From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 17:15:10 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 0D68A106566B for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BCD8FC16 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so4916293pwi.3 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:15:09 -0800 (PST) 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=w8hVdJyu9wFPispHyFt97rFn8r/SDo0w/aKYBN5nzks=; b=iNuU/tkvs/zCMkY0WN5Gn2T/HCh9OVb4vZ06HS8Osc1MnQI41/1mhjSKsG1RhwSKoM lW7NPyaX87bML9NKTtK2y5/iAyAwoU57hiE8KbkaWrYMVUKoppNddYHA36ZUvlNn+u8l FcRPgg8K0TO4KKMym9j6TumyK9rLAUQgz+6CA= 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=t6k2pGhwkDp0maxMZybBlYjzBeuGIPZUCvJh4UBg1zYPSpcuE3ldQijGh0nitN49iN SIhayXnX4Vb/8bslNBn4+I/t8EoPkqK2qltcDx35SLdmHzrAAwECJb6LYOsYPsLOrunR rV21OKYazQl9kofLyiGauxfC1x+dBniuWNPt8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.208.5 with SMTP id f5mr6969181wfg.268.1261588509503; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:15:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:15:09 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e0912230915j5ef1032m3b4a7b55d3c9f5da@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Arthur Barlow Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages vs Ports 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: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:10 -0000 On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new > version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an > error > that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M > slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile > Firefox > it would take over 8 hours. So I figured that I would just delete it and > download the new compiled version in a package. But, the package is still > not updated yet, and it's been over a week. How long does it usually take > for packages to catch up to ports? > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G > harddrive. > > Also as a temp work around you could create a file backed swap. Even slower, but it would work. You sys isn't really a compiling machine though. -- Adam Vande More