Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:45:20 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager progress? Message-ID: <200502051645.21949.reso3w83@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <1107639169.21274.4.camel@localhost> References: <1107639169.21274.4.camel@localhost>
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On Saturday 05 February 2005 01:32 pm, you wrote: > Is there any way to see how far along portmanager is and what it has > left? I've updated to portmanager 0.2.5_0 and it's been running > since yesterday afternoon. Granted there were a few stops to answer > questions about perl options and such, but still a long time. I > noticed that it's rebuilding several ports (namely things like > kde-graphics) due to them being build with an older point-version of > perl. Can't it just point to the new version or must all ports be > rebuilt if a newer version of a dependency is installed? > > This machine is running running 5.3-STABLE and had the installed > ports updated a week of so ago, so it shouldn't be terribly > out-of-date. > > Thanks for the assistance. >perl was just updated, and nearly everthing depends on it. I'm >seeing complaints from portupgrade users and portmanager's >users and all I can say is sorry, its beyond my control. >About seeing how far along portmanager is, you can get a "feel" for >time remaining by doing the following: >tail -f /usr/local/share/portmanager/ports_old.db >It will let you monitor the ports queued up for upgrading >-Mike A follow up, if you use monitor with tail -f /usr/local/share/portmanager/ports_old.db ever so ofter you need to refresh it by <ctrl><c>'ing out, then re running it. -Mike
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