portmanager progress?

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 01:32 pm, you wrote:
> Is there any way to see how far along portmanager is and what it has
> left?  I've updated to portmanager 0.2.5_0 and it's been running
> since yesterday afternoon.  Granted there were a few stops to answer
> questions about perl options and such, but still a long time.  I
> noticed that it's rebuilding several ports (namely things like
> kde-graphics) due to them being build with an older point-version of
> perl.  Can't it just point to the new version or must all ports be
> rebuilt if a newer version of a dependency is installed?
>
> This machine is running running 5.3-STABLE and had the installed
> ports updated a week of so ago, so it shouldn't be terribly
> out-of-date.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.

>perl was just updated, and nearly everthing depends on it.  I'm
>seeing complaints from portupgrade users and portmanager's
>users and all I can say is sorry, its beyond my control.

>About seeing how far along portmanager is,  you can get a "feel" for 
>time remaining by doing the following:

>tail -f /usr/local/share/portmanager/ports_old.db

>It will let you monitor the ports queued up for upgrading 

>-Mike

A follow up, if you use monitor with

 tail -f /usr/local/share/portmanager/ports_old.db

ever so ofter you need to refresh it by <ctrl><c>'ing out,
then re running it.

-Mike