Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:59:05 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? Message-ID: <402AEBF9.5000201@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040212023711.GA1544@online.fr> References: <20040212023711.GA1544@online.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>David Wolfskill wrote:
>
>
>>>Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection
>>>to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a
>>>
>>>
>>couple of days ....
>>
>>Hmm.... You may find "portupgrade -aF" ("just fetch") useful during
>>periods when you don't especially want to destabilize the machine, but
>>you have connectivity.
>>
>>
>
>Or if you have access to another machine with a fast connection and a
>CD burner, you could use "-n" (don't do anything) to see what packages
>would be upgraded, fetch those distfiles on the other machine, and
>bring them to your dialup-connected machine on a CD.
>
>Rahul
>
>
Now that sounds like it may be a great idea ---
scheduling via cron at the colo; now I'll just have
to get a burner on those servers, hmm....
Thanks!
KDK
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