Howdy! I have a suggestion: to significantly speedup the packaging phase when installing ports, pass '-f tgz' flag to `pkg create`: --- Mk/bsd.commands.mk (revision 400371) +++ Mk/bsd.commands.mk (working copy) @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ PKG_DELETE?= ${PKG_BIN} delete -y PKG_INFO?= ${PKG_BIN} info -g PKG_VERSION?= ${PKG_BIN} version -PKG_CREATE?= ${PKG_BIN} create +PKG_CREATE?= ${PKG_BIN} create -f tgz PKG_ADD?= ${PKG_BIN} add PKG_QUERY?= ${PKG_BIN} query
This way, gzip will be used instead of default xz (which is very slow). The extra compression of xz is not needed, as the package file will be deleted shortly anyway. Same idea applies to portmaster. Change pkg_create="pkg create " to pkg_create="pkg create -f tgz " on line 1916 of 'portmaster' script. Ports install a lot faster this way, even on a machine with a fast CPU (especially noticeable when doing portupgrade with lots of small ports). Example. [root@soralx /usr/ports/science/paraview]# time make package With xz: ===> Building package for paraview-4.3.1_1 real 1m41.120s user 1m40.070s sys 0m1.089s With gzip: ===> Building package for paraview-4.3.1_1 real 0m15.931s user 0m15.010s sys 0m0.925s Note that `make package` will still produce xz-compressed file after the flag is added to "PKG_CREATE"; I changed the behaviour only for this example, to demonstrate the time difference (factor of ~6.7). -- [SorAlx] ridin' VN2000 Classic LT _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"