Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:37:11 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? Message-ID: <20040212023711.GA1544@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <200402112325.i1BNPhWK015439@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote:
>>Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection
>>to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a
>couple of days ....
>
>Hmm.... You may find "portupgrade -aF" ("just fetch") useful during
>periods when you don't especially want to destabilize the machine, but
>you have connectivity.
Or if you have access to another machine with a fast connection and a
CD burner, you could use "-n" (don't do anything) to see what packages
would be upgraded, fetch those distfiles on the other machine, and
bring them to your dialup-connected machine on a CD.
Rahul
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