From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 21:24:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A766C16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:24:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2FF43D31 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:24:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8SLSLJD006320; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:28:21 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i8SLSLss006319; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:28:21 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:28:21 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: John Nielsen Message-ID: <20040928212821.GA5526@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <16729.53003.771498.882796@ran.psg.com> <1096406482.4159d5d27c165@webmail.jnielsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1096406482.4159d5d27c165@webmail.jnielsen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: Randy Bush cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: simultaneous portupgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:24:42 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:21:22PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Randy Bush : > > am i correct that there is no shared file consistency/integrity > > in the portupgrade stuff, so i can not really run two different > > portupgrades at the same time? >=20 > You are correct that it's not a good habit to get into. If you have a > fair idea of what depends on what, you can often get away with doing > multiple portupgrades at the same time, but don't be surprised when the > 'clean' of one build clobbers the working directory of another. On the > plus side, it will usually fail loudly if it fails, so all you lose is > time (which you may have lost anyway doing things sequentially). >=20 > If I only have a handful of out-of-date ports, I will generally try to do > two batches at once. I'm better at dividing the batches than I used to > be... :) I've also seen occational database corruption when two portupgrades use the database at once. In general I avoid doing things that way. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWdd1XY6L6fI4GtQRAnlSAKCUGL3C/ScnoQw/i++7moO+YPOXdQCgmFs6 2IU9a4z0cy0N/xC2FRun/XI= =b1ca -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--