From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 04:05:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A82E16A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:05:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav10.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0515643D49 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:05:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tssajo@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:05:01 -0700 Received: from 24.24.201.219 by BAY2-DAV10.phx.gbl with DAV; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:04:39 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [24.24.201.219] X-Originating-Email: [tssajo@hotmail.com] X-Sender: tssajo@hotmail.com From: "Zoltan Frombach" To: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:04:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2004 04:05:01.0669 (UTC) FILETIME=[21BFA950:01C4BBDA] Subject: Portupgrade -af question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:05:02 -0000 Okay guys, this is my very first post to the list, so please be nice to me. ;-) I have a simple question. I currently have FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3 (from May 9, 2004) installed on a semi-production server. I need to update it to 5.3-RELEASE when it becomes available. I've read in src/UPDATING that all installed ports must be rebuilt (after a successful build world and install world, of course). Someone suggested to use 'portupgrade -af' to rebuild all installed ports. But this would take a whole day, especially since it's just a single processor Pentium III system. Shouldn't it be faster to let portupgrade use pre-compiled packages (either from a 5.3-RELEASE install CD or from a remote site)? Something like: 'portupgrade -afP' ? Would it work? This would save a lot of time... a lot of down-time, in fact. Can someone more experienced with portupgrade confirm that this would work? I would really appreciate either a firm yes or a firm no answer. I just need to know the answer to this question from someone who is more knowledgable than I am, before I start doing something stupid... ;-) Thank you guys, all!! Zoltan