On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > I agree with Mike about the worms :) I have an 8.0-RELEASE system > with many ports installed and quite a few configured to taste with a > recently upgraded 8-STABLE world, working through a huge portversion > update list, started by fetching over 900MB of packages so far > including X and KDE by portupgrade -aFPP. It's going to take a > while, and I'll be surprised if I don't skin a few knuckles on > circular dependencies along the way.
I used to use packages in preference to ports but, being on a PAYG broadband account rather than unlimited, I'm more concerned about bandwidth than compile time. I found that upgrading ports often involved just a few packages which had actually been changed while the rest just had their version number bumped as a result of dependencies but still needed the entire package to be downloaded. Switching to building the ports instead means that I usually only need to download a relatively small number of distfiles with the remaining ports being recompiled from my existing collection of distfiles using the new makefiles in the updated ports tree. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
