Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 02 December 2008 17:13:58 andrew clarke wrote: >> On Tue 2008-12-02 09:28:44 UTC+0100, Mel > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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>. Don't use "portupgrade -NPP <package>". ;-) But "portupgrade -PP <package>" really *upgrades* packages. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"