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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:43:40 +0400
From:      Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>, Olivier SMEDTS <olivier@gid0.org>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...
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In-Reply-To: <20090721215201.GA61999@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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=F7 =D7=D4, 21/07/2009 =D7 14:52 -0700, Steve Kargl =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:45:36PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >=20
> > I have another box (of many) running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 with 2 GB
> > RAM and a Athlon64 2,2GHz CPU having 800(!) ports installed. Can you
> > imagine how long this box will be occupied by 'portupgrade -af'? I gues=
s
> > 'cherry-picking' is the only solution.
>=20
> How many of those 800 ports are actually necessary and used?
> It would be better to get generate a complete list of your
> installed ports, use pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete to remove
> all ports, and then selectively re-install ports that are
> actually used.

I've found that much faster and cleaner way is to just remove
whole /usr/local (preserving /usr/local/etc), and /var/db/pkg

and then just install required ports, such process goes much faster.
Also it removes all unused ports.

As for ports number, it is really crazy, I have 1435 ports for notebook
used as usual desktop and as multi-purpose development machine.

PS.
I am on i386, so can't say anything about amd64 specific performance
problems.

--=20
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova@fbsd.ru



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