Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

[Angelo Turetta]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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 are not out of date.

This may be true if you have created the /usr/ports/packages folder 
(which doesn't exist by default)
Anyway, if the packages are not found, they will be built from sources. 
In this case adding -p will save the packages for the next run (so 
portupgrade -faPp).

Angelo.