Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:42:55 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade -arR Message-ID: <3FB11F9F.1010602@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20031111173315.GA30896@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20031111173315.GA30896@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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William O'Higgins wrote: >Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: > >portupgrade -arR > >It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much >longer it is likely to take? I realize that "that depends" <grin />, >but I've love some anecdotal hints if anyone's got some. I installed >4.8 from a CD, and didn't upgrade much of anything, and I have since >CVSup'd a new ports tree, built the pkgdb and now portupgrade is just >running and running. It's not looping, it's just working away, and I >have no idea where it is in the process (it compiling kdeutils as we >speak - I wish I'd remembered to uninstall *that* before I started). >Any suggestions? Thanks. > > Don't know that it's foolish, though it's best to have done this via X, I guess... you could just watch it work in an xterm or something. I guess if you're in CLI, you could ALT-F2 to another virtual terminal and still work a bit? -arR generally takes a day and a half for my desktop machine. Most of the time spent, though, in retrospect, is grabbing new tarballs over a modem connection... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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