Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:40:34 +0100 From: Angelo Turetta <aturetta@commit.it> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Marko Lerota <mlerota@iskon.hr>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements Message-ID: <47E0DF92.6010108@commit.it> In-Reply-To: <47E02E64.1090102@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080318205455.E23824500F@ptavv.es.net> <47E02E64.1090102@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Or, is the system failing to retrieve the packages and failing over to >> building the ports? This would take a long time! >> >> I always tee the output of portupgrade to a file so, if it dies in the >> middle, it's pretty easy to pick up where it left off and not re-build >> everything twice. > > Yes, also I am pretty sure that if you rerun portupgrade -faP a second > time it will reuse the cached packages it downloaded last time, if they > are not out of date. This may be true if you have created the /usr/ports/packages folder (which doesn't exist by default) Anyway, if the packages are not found, they will be built from sources. In this case adding -p will save the packages for the next run (so portupgrade -faPp). Angelo.
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