Jason C. Wells wrote:
christopher wrote:
Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of
keeping them up-to-date?
I don't.
It's too much work. I don't update ports for the duration of a major
release's life. What ever ports came out for 6.3 (that's when I quit
trying to manage ports) are typically what I am running. When 7.1 is
released (I don't run x.0 releases) I will reinstall ports based on a
homegrown script and a couple text files.
My response is brief but I'll tell you I have tried everything. There
was much suffering that went into my ports management method. I'm much
happier now. I spend more time using my computers and less time
maintaining them.
The problem is non-trivial. I am curious how -ports folks maintain
their sanity. That's a phenomena worth studying.
There is a lot of work/buzz about redoing major portions of the ports
system to make it easier to work with and faster to do upgrades see
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsToDo and do some googling for "ports 2.0"
Regards,
Jason
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