From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 20 02:21:13 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 929BC16A400 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 02:21:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6835013C458 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 02:21:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4K2LCfo013950 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:13 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-166-149-71.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.166.149.71]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4K2LCuo030124 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:12 -0700 Message-ID: <464FB098.2060503@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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> <20070519191807.K52261@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070519191807.K52261@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.19.190036 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' 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 02:21:13 -0000 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > 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.) Don't try. portupgrade is maintained by someone else, and the scripts are a mess. If someone could have improved the scripts, they would have tried a while ago.. -Garrett