Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:03:58 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: james@icionline.ca Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading seems like a hassle... Message-ID: <1111190638.41721.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <c6bf25505031814463222362b@mail.gmail.com> References: <009401c52bfe$f314c780$9700000a@XGISH> <423B581F.1040602@FreeBSD.org> <c6bf25505031814463222362b@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:46 -0700, James Earl wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:37:19 -0500, Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> wrote: > > James Earl wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:10:44 +0100, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote: > > > > > >>What do others think about this? Isn't there another less painful way possible? Am I doing something wrong? > > > > > > > > > You're supposed to plan a day trip around the time your run the > > > gnome_upgrade script! :) > > > > > > On a serious note... Perhaps it might be possible to add an option to > > > the gnome_upgrade script to allow it to check the GNOME Tinderbox for > > > pre-compiled packages and use them if they are available. This would > > > speed up the upgrade in a major way. > > > > If you set PORTUPGRADE in your environment to be (or include) "-P", it > > will attempt to install fetch and install packages instead of building > > ports. > > And point PACKAGESITE to the GNOME Tinderbox, right? Yes. Joe > > James > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCO2xub2iPiv4Uz4cRAum9AJ4wjo+Tpf+iD1fEHizzdVXLy0vt2wCgqEv3 eiW10e26K67i88SW/cUjLlk= =sKUR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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