Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:36:01 +1100 From: Michael Ross <satare@optusnet.com.au> To: "haney01 @ email . franklin . edu" <haney01@email.franklin.edu> Cc: "freebsd-questions @ FreeBSD . ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Typical times installing from ports via 56k modem? Message-ID: <200210290136.g9T1a1N07466@mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au>
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Hiya, speaking from experience on this one ( I have moved all the way from freeBSD 4.4-4.7 all with my trusty dial up modem) It is realistic to tackle all of this from your own modem, it just takes time. > It took about 1.5 hrs for the CVSUP from 4.6.0 to 4.7, and another 2 > hours for the build (on a P3-500 with 128MB RAM). That seems a little bit long, was that the only CVSUP you did between the two? you might be able to speed things up by trying to find a cvsup server that is closer to you. > My question is... Is it realistic to upgrade via ports with a 56K > modem? I tried installing a few small things via ports, and it worked well, but I'm > wondering how long it will take to download and build things like the XFree86, > or GNOME. Do these things take days, or might I be able to accomplish it > overnight? some tips to use that I have found helpfull, * find a download server that you get good ping times off (search the mirror archives and then ping the closest ones to you) * Run all of your downloads overnight, I find I tend to get better download rates from local servers when the network is less congested. * When downloading ports to install, do "make fetch-recursive" this will fetch the tarballs for the port and for all of the dependecies.. simply a make or a make install will download a package, then build it before going onto the next one. Once the make fetch-recursive is finished you should be able to go through and do a simple make install and the port should build without needing to download anything else. * when upgrading ports, get a copy of portupgrade, and use portupgrade -raF - this should go through and download the tarballs for the ports you want to upgrade. Then later when your off the net do a portupgrade -ra to build them. Michael Ross satare@optusnet.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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