Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:34:46 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?T2RoaWFtYm8gIOODr+OCt+ODs+ODiOODsw==?= <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade 7 -> 7.2 Message-ID: <991123400905250534pfec94e8qef12b544c70f14f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251414280.18713@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251414280.18713@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>wrote: > I have to upgrade a few FreeBSD7 machines to FreeBSD7.2 > (this is new to me) > One machine has very few third party ports installed (33), the other > over 600 ... One of the steps is # portupgade -af, to rebuild all third > party software.. this took 27 minutes on the 33 packages machine.. AFAIK, you don't really need that (portupgrade -a) for point upgrades. Just update userland and kernel and go out for beer! > So for 20 times more packages: 10 hours ??? > Is this normal? Also, one I had one screen asking for options for libiconv > 1.11_1 > where I had to tab to OK and press enter. What is the 600 packages system > has 20 of more of such screens, I think if you set BATCH=yes in your environment or in /etc/make.conf then it should take care of that. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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