----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:37 AM
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: > > > Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: > > > > portupgrade -arR > > > > It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much > > longer it is likely to take? I realize that "that depends" <grin /> > > Well, "that depends"; many ports can be upgraded quickly. However > compilation of C++ is markedly slower than compilation of C, so whenever > you see things like KDE or Qt meeding an upgrade, expect it to take a > while. > > If you use "portversion -v | grep -v =" then you'll see the list of > ports which remain that need updating. (You need to run portsdb after a > cvsup for the output of this, and portupgrade's operation, to be > accurate.) Or you can use the (IMHO) simpler 'portversion -vL=' to get the same information. Cheers, Drew _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
