From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 17:36:12 2002 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 0980737B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AFF43E6E for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from satare@optusnet.com.au) Received: from webmail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (webmail09.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.126]) by mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9T1a1N07466; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:36:01 +1100 Message-Id: <200210290136.g9T1a1N07466@mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [203.13.126.19] as user satare@optusnet.com.au by webmail.optusnet.com.au with HTTP; From: Michael Ross To: "haney01 @ email . franklin . edu" Cc: "freebsd-questions @ FreeBSD . ORG" Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:36:01 +1100 Subject: Re: Typical times installing from ports via 56k modem? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya, speaking from experience on this one ( I have moved all the way from freeBSD 4.4-4.7 all with my trusty dial up modem) It is realistic to tackle all of this from your own modem, it just takes time. > It took about 1.5 hrs for the CVSUP from 4.6.0 to 4.7, and another 2 > hours for the build (on a P3-500 with 128MB RAM). That seems a little bit long, was that the only CVSUP you did between the two? you might be able to speed things up by trying to find a cvsup server that is closer to you. > My question is... Is it realistic to upgrade via ports with a 56K > modem? I tried installing a few small things via ports, and it worked well, but I'm > wondering how long it will take to download and build things like the XFree86, > or GNOME. Do these things take days, or might I be able to accomplish it > overnight? some tips to use that I have found helpfull, * find a download server that you get good ping times off (search the mirror archives and then ping the closest ones to you) * Run all of your downloads overnight, I find I tend to get better download rates from local servers when the network is less congested. * When downloading ports to install, do "make fetch-recursive" this will fetch the tarballs for the port and for all of the dependecies.. simply a make or a make install will download a package, then build it before going onto the next one. Once the make fetch-recursive is finished you should be able to go through and do a simple make install and the port should build without needing to download anything else. * when upgrading ports, get a copy of portupgrade, and use portupgrade -raF - this should go through and download the tarballs for the ports you want to upgrade. Then later when your off the net do a portupgrade -ra to build them. Michael Ross satare@optusnet.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message