gnome_update.sh: portupgrade -Pp option ?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 07:47, Denis Chatelain wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Just a wild suggestion: what about adding -Pp as an option when running 
> portupgrade ?
> 
> The dirty reason is this: If the gnome_upgade.sh is aborted, some old 
> packages are reinstalled by portupgrade. The next time the script is 
> run, these packages are rebuilt (thanks to portupgrade blind cleanup 
> before a build). Some of the packages can be quite long to rebuild.
> If the machine is very slow, and the machine must be turn off, say for 
> the sake of the human trying to sleep next to it, the process doesn't 
> take a day trip but weeks.
> Adding this option could speed up things for that particular case.
> 
> That was just a suggestion :)

This can be done today by setting the PORTUPGRADE_ARGS environment
variable to -Pp.

Joe

> 
> Denis
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