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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, RW wrote:
On Monday 27 June 2005 17:37, Denny White wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, RW wrote:
On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:22, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports.
What's the right way?
"portupgrade -arR ?"
or
"portupgrade -a" ?
AFAIK there is no difference between the two; "-a" means upgrade all
ports in the package database, "-Rr" means add in the dependencies and
dependent ports based on what's in the database, but these are already
covered by -a. New dependencies are built as a side-effect of building
out-of-date ports - not through the -R option.
There *is* a difference between -FRa and -Fa because -FR is translated
into a "make checksum-recursive". Anyone who believes that portupgrade is
slower than removing all port and reinstalling has probably been misled
by watching portupgrade -FRa which runs "make checksum-recursive" for
each installed port and so visits some ports many time.
...
This couldn't have come at a better time for me.
I really boned things up about 40 hours ago. I was
getting ready to leave and because I'd been doing
some learning/experimenting with portupgrade on
some held ports, I hit the wrong switch. I think
it was portupgrade -arRF & now, about 40 hours
later, shortly after returning home, we're still
going, going, going....... Things are really in
a mess & I've read the recent posts on this thread
& can attest, sitting here for several hours, that
"visits some ports many times" is an understatement.
It's becoming rediculous & I'm wondering if, at
some point, when clean is going after something
else was just upgraded, if I can break out & go
back with a simple portupgrade -arR & not screw
things up to badly.
You can break-out of portupgrade -arRF anytime you like, it's only fetching
distfiles not upgrading anything. Normally portupgrade -Fa will fetch all the
file you needs, but portupgrade -FRa is a bit more thorough.
Really though you don't need to run with the -F option at all, unless you
can't build online or want to prefetch files. If it's taking 40 hours
though, it probably means that your cache of files is badly out-of-date and
you are getting slow downloads - a clean pass that doesn't fetch anything
shouldn't take more than a hour.
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I finally broke out of it. I waited until it had done
its cleaning & was starting to fetch more files. I did
a ls -alt on /var/db/pkg & it was definitely installing/
reinstalling ports. Won't do that again. :) I had wanted
to force the upgrade or downgrade, whatever, of several
held ports. Now I think maybe it had something to do with
me not updating perl the right way. My bad. I went back
& reread UPDATING & found what I had missed. I did a
man perl-after-upgrade & reread all of that too & followed
the instructions. Looks like everything's back to normal.
Thanks for the help.
Denny White
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