On Jun 24, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/23/10 20:40 , Terry Barnum wrote: >> Is there a best practices way of upgrading ports? As a relatively new >> macports user, I've been reluctant to upgrade postfix and dovecot on >> my production server for fear of something breaking. > > (1) Back up /opt/local/etc, or the critical directories therein (postfix) > before upgrading ports. (If you're really paranoid, also the queues > under /opt/local/var.) > > (2) Keep the deactivated old version around (that is, don't use -u). > > If something goes pear-shaped, you can recover by reactivating the old > version and if necessary restoring the backed-up configuration directory.
Thank you Brandon. If you use postfix/dovecot, or any daemon based port I guess, is it also recommended to manually halt the processes before doing an upgrade or does port upgrade do that for you? Thanks, -Terry _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
