Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:12:30 -0600 From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000320171052.00a78338@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003201758040.1310-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc. ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10003201751480.20339-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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I agree, installing /usr/ports is annoyingly slow. Nowadays I wait until after the install for some convenient time, hopefully after I've got softupdates turned on. Jim At 05:59 PM 3/20/2000 -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote: >I dislike sending a "me too" along the list, however this is something >that has bothered me for along time. Installations from CD crawl to about >a 24KB throughput, untarring it is just as horrible, not to meantion using >cvsup with a blank /usr/ports! It would be much easier if there were not >tens of thousands of little files, but that's just my opinion. > >Matt >-- >Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] >!Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] > >On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, spork wrote: > >: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:52:33 -0500 >: From: spork <spork@super-g.com> >: To: Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de> >: Cc: "danny@FreeBSD.ORG" <danny@FreeBSD.ORG>, jabley@patho.gen.nz, >: dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, >: lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, >: brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG >: Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) >: >: >: On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dominik Brettnacher wrote: >: >: > Why do you want to use large flat files instead of a file system? The >: > Ports Collection also works fine with lots of little files. I think little >: > files are easier to maintain. >: >: Ever unpack ports? It takes forever on the fastest machines. The last >: install I did, I think it took longer to install ports than the rest of >: the OS... >: >: Charles >: >: > -- >: > Dominik - http://www.brettnacher.org/users/dominik/ >: > >: > >: > >: > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >: > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >: > >: >: >: >: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >: with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >: > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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