From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 20:11:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB1C106566C for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:11:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CBE8FC13 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:11:22 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Al4FAPzgoUxUXeb6/2dsb2JhbACUHo4Bcc0tgwQIgjgE Received: from outmx05.plus.net ([84.93.230.250]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 28 Sep 2010 20:42:06 +0100 Received: from helix.plus.com ([84.92.153.232] helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by outmx05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1P0g3x-0005jZ-Kz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:42:05 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0g3w-0000nk-5w for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:42:04 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:42:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100928120025.2A6EC10656DC@hub.freebsd.org> <20100928225602.C62022@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20100928225602.C62022@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201009282042.04131.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Free BSD 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:11:23 -0000 On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > I agree with Mike about the worms :) =A0I 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. =A0It'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=20 broadband account rather than unlimited, I'm more concerned about=20 bandwidth than compile time. I found that upgrading ports often=20 involved just a few packages which had actually been changed while the=20 rest just had their version number bumped as a result of dependencies=20 but still needed the entire package to be downloaded. Switching to=20 building the ports instead means that I usually only need to download a=20 relatively small number of distfiles with the remaining ports being=20 recompiled from my existing collection of distfiles using the new=20 makefiles in the updated ports tree. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke