Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 23:25:25 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: perl port updates Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vQWrLJsA32J_q3nNnVt53S50vB46%2BsgUMqtkMgzO8okQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b558fd2a-7f38-27d3-1385-baee8ba64683@ifdnrg.com> References: <b558fd2a-7f38-27d3-1385-baee8ba64683@ifdnrg.com>
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Paul Macdonald via freebsd-ports < freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I wonder if i'm not alone in wishing the perl maintainer would update > UPDATING with the actual up to date commands to do an upgrade, instead > of referring to an entry from many moons ago > > I'm not lazy, but if it was done once, this would actually save effort > for 100 boxes for me, and i suspect save effort for 10's of thousands > of people ( and avoid easy to make mistakes) > > Please take the time to make UPDATING correct ( and actually up to date) > , it'll save many man hours! > > ( i do appreciate their time is valuable too, but there is a > multiplication effect) > > > sincere thanks > > Paul. > It's also annoying that, if I followed the instructions in hte 3 year old entry, I would have re-installed about 400 ports which would have taken several hours. By removing the "-f" from the portmaster command reduced the re-build to about 40 ports, most small p5- ports requiring less than a minute each. Whole process took under an hour... likely about 15 minutes. No idea why the portmaster command includes it. portmaster is smart enough to figure it out correctly and not re-install a bunch of ports that don't need it. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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