From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 17:29:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F04C16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 17:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (cromagnon.cullmail.com [67.33.58.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9BF43D3F for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 17:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (localhost.cullmail.com [127.0.0.1]) i440XGfs024513; Mon, 3 May 2004 19:33:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by cromagnon.cullmail.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i440XGHC024512; Mon, 3 May 2004 19:33:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jamoore) From: Jay Moore To: Kent Stewart Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:20:18 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200404040153.11429.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <200404041706.25019.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <200404041524.33197.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200404041524.33197.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405031920.18134.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports hosed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 00:29:49 -0000 On Sunday 04 April 2004 05:24 pm, you wrote: > > But I guess I'm not completely convinced that it'll take far less > > time. I started the K3b port install Friday evening... I'm on about > > the third iteration of portupgrade, and each iteration is an > > _extremely_ long process on this old 350 MHz system with 211+ ports. > > Several of the port installs require input from the console to > > continue, so I've been friggin' chained to this desk all weekend > > long. Too much work, too much time! > > I understand that problem. I have a P-II 400 that I don't build anything > on because it takes so long. I did the portupgrade -rf expat2 on an AMD > 2400+ XP and complained because it ran for 13 hours. If you use ratios, > which don't always apply, your 350 is close to 16x slower. It is 8x by > the clock and 2x for hardware speed ups. Whew! It took almost a month, but I think I made it - well, almost... I've had an unbelievable string of mishaps (UPS died, travel, etc, etc). I re-started 'portupgrade -rf textpproc/expat2' Thursday, and early this morning was able to startx & see KDE 3.2 for the first time - about a 3 day process to build on this 350 MHz machine. I say "almost" because two ports are still hosed: samba and openoffice. I'm thinking the best strategy from here is to remove these ports & re-install as pre-built packages... any analysis or comments on this approach? Best Rgds, Jay