On 2/1/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I've gone back to the "old foolproof way" of updating my system, I'm > doing a "portsdb -Uu" again - which has always taken forever to run on my > various machines. Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), or > has anyone looked at it to see if it needs rewriting? > > I worked at a place where a monthly mainframe job ran for 24 hours, and the > whole plant had to shutdown while it ran (which wasnt too big a deal since > it was on Sunday). When the job started taking 36 hours to run and the > original programmer was too busy to fix it, they brought in a consultant to > help. He re-wrote the job so it ran in 15 minutes. The original programmer > was fired two days later. Since then, I've always been suspicous of jobs > that run for long periods of time.
It just does, after you cvsup new ports cd into /usr/ports and type make fetchindex. what way is the "old foolproof way"? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
