Wed, 10 Jun 2009
Upgrading Python with Portmaster
If you are upgrading python on FreeBSD to 2.6 the steps as they stand now require portupgrade to be installed. This is based purely on the usage of pkg_which when walking /usr/local/lib/python$ver to determine what ports to rebuild.
Last night I came up with a patch that allows one to use portmaster instead of portupgrade. It's slower because it uses pkg_info. My guess is that pkg_which is using the pkgdb used by the portupgrade suite, which makes it significantly faster then how pkg_info works. We try to parallelize the processing but it's still slow - IMO we could greatly increase the amount of parallelism going on but I'm not going to push it too far.
The patch is available at my FreeBSD space and will apply cleanly to the latest lang/python port. I intend to commit it tomorrow morning while I'm eating breakfast but if you want to test it out now just do the following:
cd /usr/ports/lang/python fetch - http://people.freebsd.org/~wxs/python26-portmaster.diff | patch portmaster -o lang/python26 lang/python25 make upgrade-site-packages -DUSE_PORTMASTER
posted at: 12:45 | tags: freebsd, portmaster, python | path: /entries/freebsd | permanent link to this entry
