PORT AUTHORITY Real sllooooooow

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Jul 24 12:49:35 PDT 2011


On Jul 24, 2011, at 13:50, Andrew Long wrote:

> Hi all. I've just installed a clean copy of Macports 2.0, and a trial copy of Port AUthority. I'd already done a test install in Terminal of Whet, and decided tp try re-installing other ports using PA.
> 
> First package at the wire was xchat2. It started off well enough, but seems to have slowed down significantly. It's writing about one line per second into the log panel, and according to activity monitor is using 100% of a single core. 
> 
> I don't know how far through the install it is, but the interface is non-responsive (spinning beach ball, activity monitor reports not responding). Is this likely to happen every time I install something with many dependencies?
> 
> Or am I doing something very wrong?

Port Authority is not developed by anyone here. If you want help with it, ask its author.

To determine if this is a Port Authority problem or a MacPorts problem, try installing the port using the "port" command on the command line, in the Terminal.





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