Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:34:46 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?T2RoaWFtYm8gIOODr+OCt+ODs+ODiOODsw==?= <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade 7 -> 7.2 Message-ID: <991123400905250534pfec94e8qef12b544c70f14f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251414280.18713@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251414280.18713@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>wrote:
> I have to upgrade a few FreeBSD7 machines to FreeBSD7.2
> (this is new to me)
> One machine has very few third party ports installed (33), the other
> over 600 ... One of the steps is # portupgade -af, to rebuild all third
> party software.. this took 27 minutes on the 33 packages machine..
AFAIK, you don't really need that (portupgrade -a) for point upgrades.
Just update userland and kernel and go out for beer!
> So for 20 times more packages: 10 hours ???
> Is this normal? Also, one I had one screen asking for options for libiconv
> 1.11_1
> where I had to tab to OK and press enter. What is the 600 packages system
> has 20 of more of such screens,
I think if you set BATCH=yes in your environment or in /etc/make.conf then
it should take care of that.
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