From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 20 00:20:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6433E16A400 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 00:20:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3033813C43E for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 00:20:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4K0KApf069232; Sat, 19 May 2007 19:20:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from localhost (stephen@localhost) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l4K0KAGY069229; Sat, 19 May 2007 19:20:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:20:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <464F8B9C.9050607@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: <20070519191807.K52261@math.missouri.edu> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <4645FF71.60100@gmx.de> <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu> <4646193E.5040503@gmx.de> <464665D5.1090509@math.missouri.edu> <464676CC.2000203@math.missouri.edu> <46469BF5.9030603@math.missouri.edu> <1179058696.13237.3.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070513101332.L82202@math.missouri.edu> <46479215.1080401@math.missouri.edu> <4647C4FB.9050607@math.missouri.edu> <4647F182.6000402@gmx.de> <46487491.6020806@math.missouri.edu> <46488168.3030300@math.missouri.edu> <464B155A.1080105@math.missouri.edu> <464B7144.2000600@math.missouri.edu> <1179353641.79329.11.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <20070517114436.3fdd55b1@deskjail> <464C5338.2090300@math.missouri.edu> <464F8B9C.9050607@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:20:11 -0000 On Sat, 19 May 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > My lord.. now I see what everyone means in terms of taking a long > time to update the ports / package databases. If you use portsnap, it doesn't > take a long time. However, if you use csup/cvsup, it appears to take a long > time running make and ruby (primarily disk I/O), to update all of the > databases. It took approximately 3-5 minutes to complete on a P4 3.0 GHz, so > I'd hate to see how long it takes to finish on a slower machine =\... > Maybe this is where Stephen's revisions to pkg_add and bsd.ports.mk > would come in handy. > -Garrett I would love to help, but I'm a plain vanilla "make install" person, and I haven't yet learned all these fancy programs like portinstall. What specific program are you refering to that takes so long to execute? Assume that I have no experience with using these tools. Then I will see if I can make that faster too. (But my first guess is that I won't be able to.)