On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:48:59PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping
> > ports current? I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to
> > 6.2 (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade
> > with several variants of flags/switches. portuprade with
> > -rpfP wound up recycling my packages most of the time. [?]
> > I've starting to think that there may be no way of doing this
> > automatically. portmanager -b -u -l may be better:: dunno.
>
> Trying to set up something to update ports automatically works only
> when the changes involved do not require human intervention to adjust
> config files, restart services after the update, and so forth.
>
> In other words, this will work OK for a short period of time in the
> face of minor version bumps, but as soon as a major change to one
> port occurs which requires one to adjust or change a config file, an
> automated update will break there. There is no free lunch with
> regard to managing servers...a human eventually needs to oversee the
> process.
>
Rats. :-)/2. I started saving current ports to
/usr/ports/packages to be able to scp the tbz files
around. But at least five pkg_add's would be required,
depending. And five pkgdb -F's too. (*mumble*)
thanks,
gary
> --
> -Chuck
>
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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