On Monday 03 May 2004 05:20 pm, Jay Moore wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2004 05:24 pm, you wrote: > > > But I guess I'm not completely convinced that it'll take far less > > > time. I started the K3b port install Friday evening... I'm on > > > about the third iteration of portupgrade, and each iteration is > > > an _extremely_ long process on this old 350 MHz system with 211+ > > > ports. Several of the port installs require input from the > > > console to continue, so I've been friggin' chained to this desk > > > all weekend long. Too much work, too much time! > > > > I understand that problem. I have a P-II 400 that I don't build > > anything on because it takes so long. I did the portupgrade -rf > > expat2 on an AMD 2400+ XP and complained because it ran for 13 > > hours. If you use ratios, which don't always apply, your 350 is > > close to 16x slower. It is 8x by the clock and 2x for hardware > > speed ups. > > Whew! It took almost a month, but I think I made it - well, > almost... I've had an unbelievable string of mishaps (UPS died, > travel, etc, etc). I re-started 'portupgrade -rf textpproc/expat2' > Thursday, and early this morning was able to startx & see KDE 3.2 for > the first time - about a 3 day process to build on this 350 MHz > machine. >
There is no substitute for speed. Last weekend, I did a -prRfa on ruby and it had updated all 303 ports a little over 12 hours later. > I say "almost" because two ports are still hosed: samba and > openoffice. I'm thinking the best strategy from here is to remove > these ports & re-install as pre-built packages... any analysis or > comments on this approach? I can't think of anything. I don't use either but have seen a number of messages on OO. Since I don't user either, I didn't pay attention to what the problems were. Those are 2 ports that I wouldn't willingly add to my sacrificial system :). The snapshots.jp.freebsd.org site looks like it has current port packages for both 4-stable and 5-current. A download and pkg_add would probably much faster than a build from source :). Kent > > Best Rgds, > Jay > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
