Upgrading seems like a hassle...

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:46 -0700, James Earl wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:37:19 -0500, Adam Weinberger <adamw at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > James Earl wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:10:44 +0100, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at 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
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