Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:28:21 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: simultaneous portupgrades Message-ID: <20040928212821.GA5526@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1096406482.4159d5d27c165@webmail.jnielsen.net> References: <16729.53003.771498.882796@ran.psg.com> <1096406482.4159d5d27c165@webmail.jnielsen.net>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:21:22PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>: > > am i correct that there is no shared file consistency/integrity > > in the portupgrade stuff, so i can not really run two different > > portupgrades at the same time? >=20 > You are correct that it's not a good habit to get into. If you have a > fair idea of what depends on what, you can often get away with doing > multiple portupgrades at the same time, but don't be surprised when the > 'clean' of one build clobbers the working directory of another. On the > plus side, it will usually fail loudly if it fails, so all you lose is > time (which you may have lost anyway doing things sequentially). >=20 > If I only have a handful of out-of-date ports, I will generally try to do > two batches at once. I'm better at dividing the batches than I used to > be... :) I've also seen occational database corruption when two portupgrades use the database at once. In general I avoid doing things that way. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWdd1XY6L6fI4GtQRAnlSAKCUGL3C/ScnoQw/i++7moO+YPOXdQCgmFs6 2IU9a4z0cy0N/xC2FRun/XI= =b1ca -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--
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