Le Dimanche 4 Mars 2007 04:50, Marc Espie a icrit : > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:43:52PM -0500, Peter wrote: > > export > > PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/ for i > > in bash \ > > wget > > do > > pkg_add $i > > done > > Don't do that. When you can, don't put pkg_add in a loop, but use > the whole list of packages you want to add in a single invocation. > > pkg_add often needs to build a memory image of which packages it > knows, and how they relate to one another. Each time you start a new > pkg_add, you pay that cost. If you use one single invocation, things > will go ways faster.
Yes, I did notice it was slow. Thanks for this information. PM
