From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 18:03:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A822106564A for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE4C8FC17 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:03:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1L7Zb7-000Bn5-3h; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:03:45 +0300 To: Mel References: <200812020928.46110.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20081202161358.GC2158@ozzmosis.com> <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:03:44 +0300 In-Reply-To: <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> (Mel's message of "Tue\, 2 Dec 2008 17\:22\:53 +0100") Message-ID: <82180575@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Beech Rintoul , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Javier Vasquez , andrew clarke Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:03:48 -0000 Mel writes: > On Tuesday 02 December 2008 17:13:58 andrew clarke wrote: >> On Tue 2008-12-02 09:28:44 UTC+0100, Mel > (fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) wrote: >> > Portupgrade -PP is detrimental for bandwidth. It's not really >> > portupgrade's fault (well, partially, it shouldn't offer the feature), >> > because it will quite often download Latest/foo.tbz, unpack it entirely >> > and then say "oops, I downloaded this useless package which is older or >> > equal to what you have installed". >> >> Yes, this happens. -PP is not ideal for regular updates but it's >> still useful for when you have a new FreeBSD install with no packages >> installed, and want to get up and running quickly, grabbing the most >> recent binaries of all your favourite ports instead of building them >> all from source. > > That's infinitely slower than pkg_add -r . Don't use "portupgrade -NPP ". ;-) But "portupgrade -PP " really *upgrades* packages. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve