From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 21:04:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BD11065675 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D238F8FC13; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47E02E64.1090102@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:04:36 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20080318205455.E23824500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20080318205455.E23824500F@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marko Lerota , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:04:35 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: > Or, is the system failing to retrieve the packages and failing over to > building the ports? This would take a long time! > > I always tee the output of portupgrade to a file so, if it dies in the > middle, it's pretty easy to pick up where it left off and not re-build > everything twice. Yes, also I am pretty sure that if you rerun portupgrade -faP a second time it will reuse the cached packages it downloaded last time, if they are not out of date. Kris