Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:55:24 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F Message-ID: <44y7lfanhf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <460BFE42.70307@daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Thu\, 29 Mar 2007 12\:58\:26 -0500") References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <8cb6106e0703271834l9014bffp8f1d5e753f7ec108@mail.gmail.com> <8EEB22EE-7230-4EEC-BEFE-514EBE059992@goldmark.org> <460A9689.2010506@daleco.biz> <20070329003400.GV11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <460B3316.7080405@daleco.biz> <17931.14232.757720.812186@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <460BFE42.70307@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> writes: > [cc: redirected >> chat@] > > Robert Huff wrote: >> Kevin Kinsey writes: >> >>> But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to >>> try "portupgrade -arR" or equivalent after forgetting to read >>> UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I originally thought. >> >> Might as well paint "PLEASE KICK ME!" and an arrow pointing >> down on your back .... >> > > LOL! Maybe --- depends on the foot to be applied. Dad > has a big foot; thankfully enough, I suppose, it hasn't > been placed there for 30 years give or take. I update my ports often enough that I've always been lucky so far when I forget to check UPDATING. > Now, at work, I'm the boss, so if I have to deinstall every port on > the box, I can take the day off and let it compile as long as Apache, > PHP, dovecot, and fetchmail get "pkg_add" called first thing before > anyone else shows up. (I suppose one difficulty there is that PHP > seems to be more temperamental than it used to be before all the > modules were "split off", but maybe that's > the fact I've not played with the thing much lately other > than to write code in it.) > > Which might show that there is some advantage to being > a "one and 2/3" person organization. Of course, I can't > think of many others that apply at present. Well, yeah. In a bigger organization, there should be a extra machines to help limit (or avoid) the downtime. You can imitate that situation on a single box by using a chroot environment to build all of your ports before installing any of them.
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