On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:21:22PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com>: > > am i correct that there is no shared file consistency/integrity > > in the portupgrade stuff, so i can not really run two different > > portupgrades at the same time? > > You are correct that it's not a good habit to get into. If you have a > fair idea of what depends on what, you can often get away with doing > multiple portupgrades at the same time, but don't be surprised when the > 'clean' of one build clobbers the working directory of another. On the > plus side, it will usually fail loudly if it fails, so all you lose is > time (which you may have lost anyway doing things sequentially). > > If I only have a handful of out-of-date ports, I will generally try to do > two batches at once. I'm better at dividing the batches than I used to > be... :) I've also seen occational database corruption when two portupgrades use the database at once. In general I avoid doing things that way. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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