From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 23:20:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A4016A41F for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 23:20:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A5813C457 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 23:20:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m33so440075wag for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:from:subject:date:to:content-transfer-encoding:x-pgp-agent:x-mailer; b=ji0TSHuHDQT4bRPrp0G2aRa1mdEUCker29tmqCLESL/HgoOXei/3HS6aH0gwHXmWz5mbhv6MgKpJlhTIdMdiTOP4lqGfUFgRtEmkyDx2gdzpIW+oVofIyFuizzfc5gvpyDTyHe5Fiqyk/B4FyQjnjHyqlUAd0fqs1Cyc4IqD680= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:from:subject:date:to:content-transfer-encoding:x-pgp-agent:x-mailer; b=NOlbI3etPpCGPewbr/fXOh50dPKrMIUOaQBzZRBuExUxcAeK/aP2M5mSy8Bt7zdwOU6gmPhadCLT4HPeYigbFIfuldr/NaIfeH/J0zvvirZ2iLCBMvaXzNRKBS3Ogm41nGEyfAZZjMtiwL/iV5sPCId9veNs+pQ8Pw5XRu0QD5w= Received: by 10.114.67.2 with SMTP id p2mr1195166waa.1180653642645; Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.8? ( [72.1.134.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id n30sm238625wag.2007.05.31.16.20.35; Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200705311822.l4VIMw14062211@serene.no-ip.org> References: <441wgxp0k7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200705311822.l4VIMw14062211@serene.no-ip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-42-482964965" Message-Id: From: paul beard Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:26 -0700 To: Conrad J. Sabatier Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Subject: Re: what is pkg_create doing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:20:43 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-42-482964965 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On May 31, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > No, by default, portupgrade runs pkg_create *before* installing the > newly built port, to create a backup of the old version in case > something goes wrong. Depending on the size of the old port > (package), > this can take an appreciable amount of time, even on a fast system. > Packages are only built *after* installation if one explicitly tells > portupgrade to do so, via the "-p" or "--package" switches. > This is consistent with what I am observing, as the command output claims the package is installed, I then see a delay (minutes? on a dual core 2.4GHz system?) while pkg_create runs, and then cleanup happens. > The man page lists several package-related ENVIRONMENT variables, > which > may or may not provide a means to disable some or all of this package > creation; I don't know for sure, as I've never tried changing or > unsetting them to see what may happen. If you're curious, though, it > may be worth experimenting with, although I would certainly advise > against disabling the precautionary backup package creation before the > new port is successfully installed. Thanks. I'll take a look there. I wasn't sure if something changes in how ports are done in the Moderne Age. -- Paul Beard words: http://paulbeard.org/wordpress pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? --Apple-Mail-42-482964965 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGX1g8jE2ksZfa4ZURApHlAJ9lUE/QHruWcEs/Vu4bm2cgZZ9D3QCgjVtU RLFlHH3u4rJONWtx84/23N0= =qClA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-42-482964965--