> Why compile ports directly on a box that is so hardware constrained that it > will take multiple hours to do, when a "pkg update; pkg upgrade" takes only > a few minutes?
I tried really hard to run small virtual machine (1GB RAM, 25G disk) hosted at Hetzner without using ports and can say it's impossible. Pre-built packages from official repo are just too heavy and bloat the system with unneeded run-time dependencies not to mention impossibility to apply hot-fix in form of a patch. And running own repository is just not an option for such system. portupgrade (or analog) plus ZFS compressed svn-updates ports tree is lightest option in practice: zfs_load="YES" vfs.zfs.arc_max="40M" vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size="8M" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" vfs.zfs.vdev.trim_on_init="0" vfs.zfs.compressed_arc_enabled="1" You can even run UFS-based system with /usr/ports mounted occasionally and zfs.ko/opensolaris.ko unloaded when not needed to free memory. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
