Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:03:44 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr@gmail.com>, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... Message-ID: <82180575@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> (Mel's message of "Tue\, 2 Dec 2008 17\:22\:53 %2B0100") References: <c88cc5730812012241i6ea540uc8a56f40c3d8237e@mail.gmail.com> <200812020928.46110.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20081202161358.GC2158@ozzmosis.com> <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> 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 <list of leaves>. Don't use "portupgrade -NPP <package>". ;-) But "portupgrade -PP <package>" 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
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