From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 00:49:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C4716A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C8D43D31 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:49:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out005.verizon.net ESMTP <20050206004923.YCJT25302.out005.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:49:23 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B20272CE745; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:45:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: Trey Sizemore User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1107639169.21274.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1107639169.21274.4.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:45:20 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502051645.21949.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:49:23 -0600 cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager progress? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:49:24 -0000 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 out-of-date.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 'ing out, then re running it. -Mike