Can selfupdate be done incrementally

[Phil Dobbin]

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On 06/04/2012 22:00, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> I also try to run selfupdate daily (one of my other machines is running
>> Debian & a cron job kicks around 07:45 each morning to run apt-get
>> update so, if I'm awake, I do Mac Ports too) so the number of ports is
>> minimal on an upgrade & if I get a long list of ports, I split them into
>> batches. Not necessary really but I like to keep the machine active on
>> other fronts while they're upgrading as much as possible.
> 
> You can also set MacPort's nice value to make it play nicer (from `man 5 macports.conf`):
>      buildnicevalue
>          Lowered scheduling priority (0-20) to use for make when building
>          ports
>          Default: 0


I hadn't thought of renice. Could be the way to go if I don't update for
a few days. I've pruned quite a few ports out recently but I've still
got way over 200 ports installed & some days there can be more than
several available for upgrade.

As an aside, I'm just finishing up installing Vim huge with all the
trimmings on Snow Leopard running in a VM on a Macbook running Ubuntu
11.10 Oneiric Ocelot with Mac Ports. Still going strong after four hours
(just getting to Ruby). Crazy. Don't ask me who asked me to do it :-)

Cheers

  Phil...

- -- 
But masters, remember that I am an ass.
Though it be not written down,
yet forget not that I am an ass.

	Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing


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