From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 20 15:12:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jking1.lgc.com (jking1.lgc.com [134.132.228.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6694137B9B4 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from MAROON (maroon [134.132.228.8]) by jking1.lgc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA50884; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:12:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000320171052.00a78338@mail.sstar.com> X-Sender: king@mail.sstar.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:12:30 -0600 To: Matt Heckaman , spork From: Jim King Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) Cc: FreeBSD-ISP In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 >: To: Dominik Brettnacher >: Cc: "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