Portupgrade problem

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:51 am, Andreas Davour wrote:
> I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to all who chimed in with
> helpful suggestions on my portupgrade problem.
>
> I have now learned that ports-all is proably the best option for a
> ports-supfile, and I'll have to look into the issue about a refuse
> file instead when I want to limit the selection.
>
> I have also learnt the importance of running 'portsdb -Uu' after
> upgrading.

Since you will now be running portsdb -uU, you should refuse 
ports/INDEX[-5]. This dependis on whether you are running 4.x or [-5] 
if you are running 5.x. You are going to recreate the INDEX file and it 
takes a long time to redownload even over a 100Mbps network. Since you 
have recreated your INDEX file, cvsup will download it everytime you 
cvsup ports-all. The refuse saves you from re-downloading a don't need 
5 MB file.

>
> Now I think I know how to do these things and after another upgrade I
> think I'm ready to at least do the cvsup part using cron.

The hardest part of a cron job is finding that magic time after the hour 
that never fails because your cvsup-mirror is over committed. The 
mirrors always update on the hour and you have to wait at least 10 
minutes for the mirror to finish its cvsup. If you don't, you are 
getting data from the mirror's previous update. 

I currently schedule my local mirror update at 25 minutes after the 
hour. It has been more than 2 days since the update failed. All mirrors 
are not created equal. When something major like  FreeBSD 4.10 is 
released, there is no magic time and you will probably find that the 
cronjob frequently fails for around a day.

Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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