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    From Alan B@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 10 16:55:05 2022
    MacPorts has decided to perform a self-update and my M1 Mac. It's taking absolutely ages! Is this normal? I'm reluctant to kill it as it seems to
    be rebuilding a lot of programs. It didn't take that long to install it initially a few months back.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to Alan B on Sat Dec 10 17:59:04 2022
    On 10/12/2022 16:55, Alan B wrote:
    MacPorts has decided to perform a self-update and my M1 Mac. It's taking absolutely ages! Is this normal? I'm reluctant to kill it as it seems to
    be rebuilding a lot of programs. It didn't take that long to install it initially a few months back.

    The selfupdate just rsyncs the updated package details across, so is
    mostly network bound.

    If you're actually updating packages as well, then there are some low
    level packages that changed which are probably causing lots of other
    rebuilds - eg openssl.

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    Chris

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Chris Ridd on Sat Dec 10 18:18:37 2022
    Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
    On 10/12/2022 16:55, Alan B wrote:
    MacPorts has decided to perform a self-update and my M1 Mac. It's taking
    absolutely ages! Is this normal? I'm reluctant to kill it as it seems to
    be rebuilding a lot of programs. It didn't take that long to install it
    initially a few months back.

    The selfupdate just rsyncs the updated package details across, so is
    mostly network bound.

    If you're actually updating packages as well, then there are some low
    level packages that changed which are probably causing lots of other
    rebuilds - eg openssl.

    I’ve not done myself any favours by installing ports I probably won’t be using. Anyway it seems to be OK now but I will be auditing my installed
    ports and removing some!

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Alan B on Sat Dec 10 19:40:29 2022
    Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
    Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
    On 10/12/2022 16:55, Alan B wrote:
    MacPorts has decided to perform a self-update and my M1 Mac. It's taking >>> absolutely ages! Is this normal? I'm reluctant to kill it as it seems to >>> be rebuilding a lot of programs. It didn't take that long to install it
    initially a few months back.

    The selfupdate just rsyncs the updated package details across, so is
    mostly network bound.

    If you're actually updating packages as well, then there are some low
    level packages that changed which are probably causing lots of other
    rebuilds - eg openssl.

    I’ve not done myself any favours by installing ports I probably won’t be using. Anyway it seems to be OK now but I will be auditing my installed
    ports and removing some!

    Incidentally the fan on my MBP really took off performing the update, particularly when rust was updating.

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to Alan B on Sun Dec 11 10:57:37 2022
    On 10/12/2022 19:40, Alan B wrote:
    Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
    I’ve not done myself any favours by installing ports I probably won’t be >> using. Anyway it seems to be OK now but I will be auditing my installed
    ports and removing some!

    An audit is very sensible.

    Incidentally the fan on my MBP really took off performing the update, particularly when rust was updating.

    Nice! I don't get any fan noise when rust's building on an M1 Pro or an
    M1 Max. Maybe the ambient temperature helps ;-)

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    Chris

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