From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 19:32:13 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E72916A41B for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:32:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4780813C481 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDEF51997 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:31:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:31:54 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070905203154.56ac6d58@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <46DEE2B2.4080602@adempiere.org> References: <46DEDD6F.9020509@gmail.com> <46DEE2B2.4080602@adempiere.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ports collection background-fetch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:32:13 -0000 On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:39:06 +0330 "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> wrote: > deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > > Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the > > background while other parts are being compiled? > > > Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if > running X) and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to > compile. The port(s) will be fetched and compiled simultaneously. > Then all you need to do is to run 'make install' for each port. > > Note: I'm not sure but I think it's not a good practice to issue more > than one 'make install' at a time. > There's no need to do that, you just do make checksum or make checksum-recursive, that's what portupgrade -F and portupgrade -RF do. They don't update anything (other than the distfiles) so should be safe.