Faster ports compilation for slower PCs [SOLVED]

[Apatewna]

We see that compiling from ports takes a very long time in older hardware (it makes sense). I have read that it is possible to compile a port on a faster machine using the command:

# portinstall -p name_of_port

The -p switch creates packages (.tbz) for all the ports that the above command needed to compile. And as we know local packages are faster to install :

# pkg_add name_of_package.tbz

What is the prerequisite so that somebody with two PCBSD installations can accomplish this little trick and upgrade the slower machine using these faster created packages? As far as I understand the process the critical points are

a) the compilers
b) the kernel sources (if compiling some driver)
c) the architecture (Intel or AMD, older or newer, x64 or not)

This is very interesting and I'm sure lots (including me) are willing to hear an answer from more experienced members.

[antik]

This is very interesting and I'm sure lots (including me) are willing to hear an answer from more experienced members.

And don't forget to make /usr/ports/packages directory- due to some awkward reason this firectory is not created automagically.

[dracheflieger]

Looks like you have to have the port installed already but not sure

-p
     --package              Build a package when each specified port is
                            installed or upgraded.  If a package is upgraded
                            and its dependent packages are given from the com-
                            mand line (including the case where -r is speci-
                            fied), build packages for them as well.

[Apatewna]

Here is a practical example:

 # mkdir /usr/ports/packages 
# portinstall -p wine

After installation I got three folders under /usr/ports/packages:

PCBSD# ls /usr/ports/packages/*
/usr/ports/packages/All:
wine-0.9.19,1.tbz

/usr/ports/packages/Latest:
wine.tbz

/usr/ports/packages/emulators:
wine-0.9.19,1.tbz
PCBSD#

And a little cutoff from the end of the compilation itself:

Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/wine-0.9.19,1.tbz'
===> Cleaning for gmake-3.81_1
===> Cleaning for bison-1.75_2,1
===> Cleaning for lcms-1.15,1
===> Cleaning for freetype2-2.1.10_3
===> Cleaning for fontforge-20060413
===> Cleaning for libglut-6.4.2
===> Cleaning for xorg-libraries-6.9.0
===> Cleaning for gettext-0.14.5_2
===> Cleaning for m4-1.4.4
===> Cleaning for pkg-config-0.20_2
===> Cleaning for libuninameslist-20050712
===> Cleaning for tiff-3.8.2
===> Cleaning for jpeg-6b_4
===> Cleaning for png-1.2.12_1
===> Cleaning for libungif-4.1.4_1
===> Cleaning for libxml2-2.6.26
===> Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2_2
===> Cleaning for imake-6.9.0
===> Cleaning for libdrm-2.0.2
===> Cleaning for fontconfig-2.3.2_5,1
===> Cleaning for libtool-1.5.22_2
===> Cleaning for perl-5.8.8
===> Cleaning for expat-2.0.0_1
===> Cleaning for wine-0.9.19,1

This is the list of the prerequisites which are aparently already installed so no packages were created for them.

[antik]

This is the list of the prerequisites which are aparently already installed so no packages were created for them.

You can force recreatin/reinstall.

[Apatewna]

Last night I did:

# portinstall -p kino

Look what happened to /usr/ports/packages

PCBSD# ls -l /usr/ports/packages/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1024 19 Αυγ 01:06 All
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 01:06 Latest
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:28 accessibility
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:22 audio
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 01:00 devel
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 17 Αυγ 21:36 emulators
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 01:00 gnome
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:22 ipv6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:56 misc
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 01:06 multimedia
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:22 net
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:13 perl5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 01:00 textproc
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 19 Αυγ 00:58 x11-toolkits
PCBSD#

Let's see the "All folder

PCBSD# ls -l /usr/ports/packages/All/
total 21832
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   205826 19 Αυγ 00:28 atk-1.11.4_1.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   455024 19 Αυγ 00:12 autoconf-2.59_2.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2877734 19 Αυγ 00:22 ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9.c.2006032300_2.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5795555 19 Αυγ 00:58 gtk-2.8.20.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    32625 19 Αυγ 00:12 help2man-1.36.4_1.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     3461 19 Αυγ 00:56 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    44657 19 Αυγ 00:13 intltool-0.35.0.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1221852 19 Αυγ 01:06 kino-0.9.0.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   248953 19 Αυγ 00:15 libdv-0.104_1.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    81088 19 Αυγ 01:00 libglade2-2.6.0.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   545334 19 Αυγ 00:26 libquicktime-0.9.9.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   180733 19 Αυγ 00:13 p5-XML-Parser-2.34_2.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   480647 19 Αυγ 00:39 pango-1.12.3.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   164873 19 Αυγ 00:56 shared-mime-info-0.18.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   191838 19 Αυγ 00:17 texi2html-1.76_1,1.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  9584581 17 Αυγ 21:36 wine-0.9.19,1.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    23514 19 Αυγ 01:00 xmlcatmgr-2.2.tbz
PCBSD#

Very nice

EDIT
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If you see some unexpected characters in the above lines it's because of Greek encoding in the console text.

[g0lem]

did anyone see if by make package-recursive (or portinstall -p) ports are recreated even if they were already created once for another port, as a dependency?

(i'm tred, hope you understand what i just said... :roll: )

[Apatewna]

I will retry "portinstall -p kino" (on top installation) tonight at home and see what messages popup

EDIT
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FYI, I updated ports, but there was no new version for kino. Then I tried

# portinstall -p kino

and nothing happened. I doubt that any of the prerequisites had a new version either.