Upgrading seems like a hassle...

[James Earl]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:37:19 -0500, Adam Weinberger <adamw at freebsd.org> wrote:
> James Earl wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:10:44 +0100, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>What do others think about this? Isn't there another less painful way possible? Am I doing something wrong?
> >
> >
> > You're supposed to plan a day trip around the time your run the
> > gnome_upgrade script!  :)
> >
> > On a serious note...  Perhaps it might be possible to add an option to
> > the gnome_upgrade script to allow it to check the GNOME Tinderbox for
> > pre-compiled packages and use them if they are available.  This would
> > speed up the upgrade in a major way.
> 
> If you set PORTUPGRADE in your environment to be (or include) "-P", it
> will attempt to install fetch and install packages instead of building
> ports.

And point PACKAGESITE to the GNOME Tinderbox, right?

James