Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:00:21 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nic Reveles <Nic.Reveles@gatech.edu> Subject: Re: Using Portupgrade? Message-ID: <1217898021.1191.14.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <20080804022618.GA4790@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <696148549.2959541217812741596.JavaMail.root@mail3.gatech.edu> <1938178730.2959681217812808135.JavaMail.root@mail3.gatech.edu> <20080804022618.GA4790@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 19:26 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:20:08PM -0400, Nic Reveles wrote: > > I've recently updated to freeBSD 6.3-STABLE from 5.3-RELEASE (amd64) and am struggling with out of date ports. I have tried updating 'ports-all' and 'src-all' numerous times (does src-all include ports-all? It takes forever) along with portupgrade. > > src-all does not include ports-all. > > "It takes forever" is wonderfully vague. :-) Chances are the cvsup > server you're using is slow (usually caused by heavy disk I/O, not so > much network I/O); pick another. Try them all, find one which is fast. > I'd recommend a couple I commonly use, but then everyone will start > using them....... :-) One can install sysutils/fastest_cvsup and run fastest_cvsup -c <ISO country code> -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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