Has the port collection become to large to handle.

[Paul Schmehl]

fbsd wrote:
> The best indicator that the ports collection has become to large is
> that it took me 2 hours to download the complete port-all collection
> using A DSL internet connection. To compile the ports I use took
> another 11 hours. This is the reason I went to using packages in the
> first place.
> 
And installing it from the same CD that you installed the OS from would 
take about 1 minute.  If you choose a method to install the ports that 
take several hours, should the FreeBSD folks take the blame for your 
choice?  A 33.bKbps dialup connection should download the entire ports 
collection in under 3 hours.  And DSL connection should do it in 
significantly less time.  Even a 270Kbps down DSL connection should be 
able to snatch the whole thing in just over 20 minutes.

If I had a dialup connection or the uncredibly slow DSL connection you 
mention, I don't think I'd make the same choice that you made.  I'd 
install from the CD.  Updating through cvs might take 45 minutes then.

> Downloading the complete port collection when I had a dial up
> connection would go maybe 35 min and them get suspended by the cvs
> site. I would rerun the job over and over again sometimes taking a
> week or better to finally get it completed. This makes the download
> of the complete port collect almost impossible for dial up users.
>
And yet, not once did you ever try to install from the CD?  Why would 
you beat your head against the wall like that?

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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