Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 18 14:04:35 PDT 2008


Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Or, is the system failing to retrieve the packages and failing over to
> building the ports? This would take a long time!
> 
> I always tee the output of portupgrade to a file so, if it dies in the
> middle, it's pretty easy to pick up where it left off and not re-build
> everything twice.

Yes, also I am pretty sure that if you rerun portupgrade -faP a second 
time it will reuse the cached packages it downloaded last time, if they 
are not out of date.

Kris


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