On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Or, is the system failing to retrieve the packages and failing over to > > building the ports? This would take a long time! > > > > I always tee the output of portupgrade to a file so, if it dies in the > > middle, it's pretty easy to pick up where it left off and not re-build > > everything twice.
Yep, or use script(1). Amazing what you pick up from the handbook :) > Yes, also I am pretty sure that if you rerun portupgrade -faP a second > time it will reuse the cached packages it downloaded last time, if they > are not out of date. I've sometimes had some trouble with some of the mirrors not always having [all] the packages needed, and have had to shop around a bit. Running portupgrade -anPP will pick up at least all top-level packages available first, and you can check your script output (and what's in /usr/ports/packages) to be sure you've got X, KDE and other Big Stuff. Then even the bandwidth- and/or CPU-impaired are good to go with -faP. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"