Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:31:54 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports collection background-fetch Message-ID: <20070905203154.56ac6d58@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <46DEE2B2.4080602@adempiere.org> References: <46DEDD6F.9020509@gmail.com> <46DEE2B2.4080602@adempiere.org>
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:39:06 +0330 "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> wrote: > deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > > Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the > > background while other parts are being compiled? > > > Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if > running X) and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to > compile. The port(s) will be fetched and compiled simultaneously. > Then all you need to do is to run 'make install' for each port. > > Note: I'm not sure but I think it's not a good practice to issue more > than one 'make install' at a time. > There's no need to do that, you just do make checksum or make checksum-recursive, that's what portupgrade -F and portupgrade -RF do. They don't update anything (other than the distfiles) so should be safe.
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