Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:04:26 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk Cc: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> Subject: Re: Large port updates Message-ID: <20041207180426.764745D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:52:15 GMT." <20041207175217.3138143D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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> From: mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk > Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:52:15 +0000 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > cmt@burggraben.net wrote: > > > Not in this case. Check /usr/ports/UPDATING 20041107: > > : Do NOT use portupgrade(1) to update your GNOME 2.6 desktop to 2.8 > > Last time this happened, this is what caused my to deinstall > gnome. THe upgrade script could take weeks to run on a reasonable spec > machine because it insisted on rebuilding all sorts of stuff. You > couldn't stop it, or it would start over. > > It seems to me that its a product of gnome being so many ports. Why > not just have a few, like KDE (although it appears KDE is going the > way of gnome - if this results in portupgrade not working there > either, its insanity). The vast number of interdependencies in Gnome do make upgrading a pain, but the 2.8 upgrade has a -restart option, so you don't have to start over. The upgrade is an overnight thing for at least the first pass. On my old 450 MHz K6 it took over a day. But, once I fixed a few problems and restarted the upgrade, it finished up quite cleanly in about 20 minutes. I have upgraded all of my systems ranging from the 450 MHz K6 to a 1.8 GHz P4M and only one took over a day and that one was done while I was on travel and couldn't really keep on top of the upgrade. I would STRONGLY urge that you do a portupgrade -aF to pre-fetch all source tarballs before you start. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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