Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:22:53 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr@gmail.com>, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... Message-ID: <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20081202161358.GC2158@ozzmosis.com> References: <c88cc5730812012241i6ea540uc8a56f40c3d8237e@mail.gmail.com> <200812020928.46110.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20081202161358.GC2158@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tuesday 02 December 2008 17:13:58 andrew clarke wrote:
> On Tue 2008-12-02 09:28:44 UTC+0100, Mel
(fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) wrote:
> > Portupgrade -PP is detrimental for bandwidth. It's not really
> > portupgrade's fault (well, partially, it shouldn't offer the feature),
> > because it will quite often download Latest/foo.tbz, unpack it entirely
> > and then say "oops, I downloaded this useless package which is older or
> > equal to what you have installed".
>
> Yes, this happens. -PP is not ideal for regular updates but it's
> still useful for when you have a new FreeBSD install with no packages
> installed, and want to get up and running quickly, grabbing the most
> recent binaries of all your favourite ports instead of building them
> all from source.
That's infinitely slower than pkg_add -r <list of leaves>.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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