Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:36:29 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow? Message-ID: <78c0ba12-a8c0-a6f3-0cde-ba917519f5d3@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <78283e5d-f46f-2e21-7ccb-ce661531af06@qeng-ho.org> References: <2371411618364379@vla3-7c930ca38d8d.qloud-c.yandex.net> <78283e5d-f46f-2e21-7ccb-ce661531af06@qeng-ho.org>
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On 15/04/2021 13:35, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 14/04/2021 02:39, Erik Lauritsen wrote: >> I have been setting here for about 6 hours waiting for an upgrade >> from 12.2 to 13 and freebsd-update is only half way through getting >> all the patches! >> >> It's painful. It's like the 90th with 56k modems and I am on a >> gigabit wire. >> >> Then I did a search and this has apparently been an issue for several >> years, it has even been filed as a bug. >> >> Anyway, I have cancelled the upgrade. If it's going to take this >> long, I am not going to upgrade this, but will most likely replace it >> with another OS. > > This tweet from Colin Percival talks about the problem. > > https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1382491128537096193 > > TL;DR: changes to git caused a massive overload, the number of mirrors > has been increased to deal with it. > To clarify, I mean changing portsnap to use git, rather than changes in git itself. -- The number of people predicting the demise of Moore's Law doubles every 18 months.
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