From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 08:23:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDBF16A407 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from mx.inode.at (lb01nat05.inode.at [62.99.145.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B2743D45 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:23:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [85.124.24.122] (port=10487 helo=[192.168.1.11]) by smartmx-05.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GSrAg-0002BF-1M; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:23:06 +0200 Message-ID: <451B8666.4030909@inode.at> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:23:02 +0200 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob References: <200609280412.51064.bob@tania.servebbs.org> In-Reply-To: <200609280412.51064.bob@tania.servebbs.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PortUpgrade multiple packages? 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: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:23:07 -0000 Bob wrote: > > Is it safe to portupgrade several packages in parallel? Open several root > consoles and do a portupgrade in each one at the same time? That might cause problems if the programs have the same dependencies (fetch conflict or even worse, build conflict) However you can tell portupgrade to install more programs which is probably not really slower than running them parallel (smp etc is excluded from this assumption) -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at