Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:28:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ricardo A. Reis" <ricardo_bsd@yahoo.com.br> Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New portmaster version available for testing/feedback Message-ID: <44BBC8CB.8090903@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <op.tcszpqyep1tyz6@myfreebsd> References: <44B9E086.60009@FreeBSD.org> <op.tcszpqyep1tyz6@myfreebsd>
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Ricardo A. Reis wrote: > Hi Barton, > > > More one idea for portmaster, is possible limit the number of > concurrent fetch ? [ snip ] > I use portmaster for update 138 ports and now i don't have more > bandwidth :-( heh, sorry about that. I could look into the idea of limiting the number of fetches, but it's a balancing act, since people with a lot of bandwidth would like to have more, and adding another tunable for this seems like overkill to me. The good news is that in your situation, you can alleviate some of the problem by not using portmaster -a, and instead updating one or a few ports at a time. If you do (with the new version) 'portmaster -L' it will show you what you have installed, and what updates are available. If you start your updates with the root and trunk ports (that have no, or few dependencies) then you won't be doing so many fetches at once. You can keep moving "up" the dependency "tree" a port at a time, or once you get most of the ports updated you could then use -a safely. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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