Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:57:43 -0700 From: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com> To: "Andre Guibert de Bruet" <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade -af question Message-ID: <BAY2-DAV18BYXifWoqF000128bb@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV100Bqhk6KR800012731@hotmail.com> <20041027003640.K42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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Thank you for your prompt reply! All of the mentioned conditions are true in my case, so I guess this is the way I'm gonna go. I have a few ports that I compile with custom command line options, but I can always re-compile those later just by issuing individual portupgrade -f portname commands. My main point is to shorten the downtime this server must suffer at the "upgradathon". ;-) Again, thanks for confirming this! Zoltan > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Zoltan Frombach wrote: > >> 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 > > Don't forget the mergemaster step! > >> 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. > > This is guaranteed to work if: > - Your ports skeleton is up to date. > - This machine has HTTP and FTP access enabled. > - The ports you are upgrading are not forbidden, deprecated or broken. > - All distfiles are available from at least one of the relevant mirrors. > > This is the case because portupgrade -P searches for packages locally or > wherever PKG_PATH points to, tries to use pkg_fetch and then falls back to > updating from ports if precompiled packages are not available. > >> 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!! > > "firm yes", but only if all of the above conditions are met. > > Have fun with this "upgradathon"! :-) > > Regards, > Andy
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