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Subject: Re: Stopping portupgrade safely
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:20:02 -0700
<david@vizion2000.net> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> What is the safe way to stop portupgrade?
> 

Try to stop it during the build stage or one of the prebuild stages
(extract, configure etc).

If it's installing, or updating any kind of database, leave it until it
starts fetching or extracting for the next port.