Yes, I believe that using portaudit as a kind of pre-selection tool for filtering out important updates is a good way of doing things.
Do a cronjob every week or so and see what it has to say. Thanks a lot. -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 22:21 > To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? > > > > > --- Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how > > often to run portupgrades. > > > > I figure that once a week should be sufficient, > > however each time it runs it can take up to a few > > hours to complete which seems like an unnecessary > > hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the > > complete gnome port which took a couple days! > > > > Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? > > > > Thanks alot in advance. > Kiffin, > Interestingly enough I was glancing at one of the > FreeBSD books and it said (I'm paraphrasing here) > Uptime isn't something one should be proud of. If > uptime is, for example, 350 days then darn it > something probably needs updating. It just becomes > more of a in-your-face sort of thing because then > packages have to be fetched, compiled, installed and > all that. > Do the research to see what a portupgrade is going to > touch and see what fixes there are. A good example for > upgrading would be finding out that (I don't recall which > program reports that a port has a given security issue and > briefly tells you to either upgrade or > uninstall) if a given port has a security fix for it. > Did a smidge of research and I think it is portaudit > found in security/portaudit. > Alrighty, back to your question. If, for example, > portaudit says there's a security issue and you are > worried about it then upgrade (perhaps have portaudit > run every night). > I guess what I'm trying to say is --What ever you are > comfortable with. > > Hope that helps. > > ~Mr. Anderson > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
