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From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
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James Earl wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:10:44 +0100, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote:
> 
>>What do others think about this? Isn't there another less painful way possible? Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> 
> You're supposed to plan a day trip around the time your run the
> gnome_upgrade script!  :)
> 
> On a serious note...  Perhaps it might be possible to add an option to
> the gnome_upgrade script to allow it to check the GNOME Tinderbox for
> pre-compiled packages and use them if they are available.  This would
> speed up the upgrade in a major way.

If you set PORTUPGRADE in your environment to be (or include) "-P", it 
will attempt to install fetch and install packages instead of building 
ports.

# Adam


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