Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:42:04 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD 8.1 Message-ID: <201009282042.04131.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100928225602.C62022@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20100928120025.2A6EC10656DC@hub.freebsd.org> <20100928225602.C62022@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > I agree with Mike about the worms :) I have an 8.0-RELEASE system > with many ports installed and quite a few configured to taste with a > recently upgraded 8-STABLE world, working through a huge portversion > update list, started by fetching over 900MB of packages so far > including X and KDE by portupgrade -aFPP. It's going to take a > while, and I'll be surprised if I don't skin a few knuckles on > circular dependencies along the way. I used to use packages in preference to ports but, being on a PAYG broadband account rather than unlimited, I'm more concerned about bandwidth than compile time. I found that upgrading ports often involved just a few packages which had actually been changed while the rest just had their version number bumped as a result of dependencies but still needed the entire package to be downloaded. Switching to building the ports instead means that I usually only need to download a relatively small number of distfiles with the remaining ports being recompiled from my existing collection of distfiles using the new makefiles in the updated ports tree. -- Mike Clarke
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