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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:04:36 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Marko Lerota <mlerota@iskon.hr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements
Message-ID:  <47E02E64.1090102@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080318205455.E23824500F@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20080318205455.E23824500F@ptavv.es.net>

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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are not out of date.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



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