Ports upgrade/update taking really long

[SirDice]

you can uninstall the offending package without hurting the OS

As a matter of fact, if/when things really go sour you can just do pkg delete -af to delete everything without having to reinstall the OS.

 

[joplass]

Going by memory I believe I did this first

# portsnap fetch extract

follow by

#portupgrade -a

. I have to be in front of that machine to trace back my steps. Prior to that I deleted everything in /ports.

 

[SirDice]

portsnap fetch extract only creates a local copy of the ports tree (everything in /usr/ports)

portsupgrade -a ; only updates/upgrades your installed ports.

The way you were describing your situation it sounded like you were trying to build all 37000+ ports from /usr/ports.

 

[joplass]

portsnap fetch extract only creates a local copy of the ports tree (everything in /usr/ports)

portsupgrade -a ; only updates/upgrades your installed ports.

The way you were describing your situation it sounded like you were trying to build all 37000+ ports from /usr/ports.

Into my madness it seems your post suggests I am on the right track. Again all this came about because I was unable to install some packages. One of them clearly was the nvidia driver.