Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <464FB098.2060503@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070519191807.K52261@math.missouri.edu> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <4645FF71.60100@gmx.de> <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu> <4646193E.5040503@gmx.de> <464665D5.1090509@math.missouri.edu> <464676CC.2000203@math.missouri.edu> <46469BF5.9030603@math.missouri.edu> <1179058696.13237.3.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070513101332.L82202@math.missouri.edu> <46479215.1080401@math.missouri.edu> <4647C4FB.9050607@math.missouri.edu> <4647F182.6000402@gmx.de> <46487491.6020806@math.missouri.edu> <46488168.3030300@math.missouri.edu> <464B155A.1080105@math.missouri.edu> <464B7144.2000600@math.missouri.edu> <1179353641.79329.11.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <20070517114436.3fdd55b1@deskjail> <464C5338.2090300@math.missouri.edu> <464F8B9C.9050607@u.washington.edu> <20070519191807.K52261@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> My lord.. now I see what everyone means in terms of taking a long >> time to update the ports / package databases. If you use portsnap, it >> doesn't take a long time. However, if you use csup/cvsup, it appears >> to take a long time running make and ruby (primarily disk I/O), to >> update all of the databases. It took approximately 3-5 minutes to >> complete on a P4 3.0 GHz, so I'd hate to see how long it takes to >> finish on a slower machine =\... >> Maybe this is where Stephen's revisions to pkg_add and >> bsd.ports.mk would come in handy. >> -Garrett > > I would love to help, but I'm a plain vanilla "make install" person, and > I haven't yet learned all these fancy programs like portinstall. > > What specific program are you refering to that takes so long to execute? > Assume that I have no experience with using these tools. Then I will > see if I can make that faster too. (But my first guess is that I won't > be able to.) Don't try. portupgrade is maintained by someone else, and the scripts are a mess. If someone could have improved the scripts, they would have tried a while ago.. -Garrett
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