Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:46:24 -0700 From: James Earl <jamesd.earl@gmail.com> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading seems like a hassle... Message-ID: <c6bf25505031814463222362b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <423B581F.1040602@FreeBSD.org> References: <009401c52bfe$f314c780$9700000a@XGISH> <c6bf25505031814301bb5b416@mail.gmail.com> <423B581F.1040602@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:37:19 -0500, Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> wrote: > James Earl wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:10:44 +0100, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote: > > > >>What do others think about this? Isn't there another less painful way possible? Am I doing something wrong? > > > > > > You're supposed to plan a day trip around the time your run the > > gnome_upgrade script! :) > > > > On a serious note... Perhaps it might be possible to add an option to > > the gnome_upgrade script to allow it to check the GNOME Tinderbox for > > pre-compiled packages and use them if they are available. This would > > speed up the upgrade in a major way. > > If you set PORTUPGRADE in your environment to be (or include) "-P", it > will attempt to install fetch and install packages instead of building > ports. And point PACKAGESITE to the GNOME Tinderbox, right? James
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