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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:25:32 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Questions on portmaster
Message-ID:  <20090701172532.GA37269@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4A4AFC07.6070508@gmail.com>
References:  <4A4AFC07.6070508@gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:32:47AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When=20
> there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child=20
> processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ?

The fetches are not done in parallel.

> I ask=20
> this because the parent process attached to the console reports very low=
=20
> data transfer rates (in the range of 0.7 to 4.0 kBps, while normally I=20
> get 30 to 35 kBps).

This is not enough data to ascertain there is a problem with fetch.
If you are fetching from a busy site, or via a busy upstream channel it
can be slow.

> Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which=
=20
> are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ?

touch /var/db/pkg/<name_of_port>/+IGNOREME

> This is not covered in the manpage.

It is. Look in the FILES section of portmaster(8).
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Roland
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