Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:39:25 +0200 From: Tilman Linneweh <arved@FreeBSD.org> To: Rob Hancock <r1w3h@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Best way to keep large ports uptodate Message-ID: <20040814053924.GA14857@arved.at> In-Reply-To: <200408131729.28284.r1w3h@yahoo.com> References: <200408131729.28284.r1w3h@yahoo.com>
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* Rob Hancock [Sa, 14 Aug 2004 at 02:29 GMT]: > Currently I've been using portupgrade to keep all my ports current, and > it works great. With very large ports such as KDE/base/libs/etc it takes > several hours to compile on my little 600MHz laptop. Is there a way to > keep the previously compiled objects around so when I upgrade the > next time only the changes have to be recompiled? Or am I better off > just waiting until major updates and doing a clean compile then? Read /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf esp. HOLD_PKGS and USE_PKGS. regards tilman
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