From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 17:46:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A5D106564A for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:46:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aturetta@commit.it) Received: from aa001msb.fastweb.it (aa001msb.fastweb.it [85.18.95.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FAD8FC19 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:46:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aturetta@commit.it) Received: from mail.logital.it (89.97.230.176) by aa001msb.fastweb.it (8.0.013.5) id 48321764028AB1AA for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:34:33 +0200 Received: from [192.168.33.30] (85-18-250-113.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.250.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.logital.it (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5BHYTYo048176 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:34:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from aturetta@commit.it) Message-ID: <48500C9E.7090802@commit.it> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:34:22 +0200 From: Angelo Turetta User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - Ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.92.1, clamav-milter version 0.92.1 on mail.logital.it X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: portmaster: upgrade using local packages? 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: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:46:24 -0000 I'm evaluating portmaster: I cannot find an option to use pre-built packages for upgrading. My usage-pattern for ports is to build the packages I need (eventually with the non-default options I use) on a dev machine (plenty of CPU/memory), and then to deploy the upgrades via "portupgrade -P" on production servers where the downtime of the services must be as short as possible. Always rebuilding from source is sub-optimal in this case, also because of the total time for upgrading multiple times the same ports. I started using portmaster -g on the build machine, but what could I use for binary upgrades on the production servers? Thanks, Angelo Turetta Modena - Italy