Re: How-to maintain upgrade??
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 00:38, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:35:37PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 17:53, Gary Kline wrote: I kind of do the same thing on a weekly basis. I created a shell script that runs the following: cd /usr/ports/distfiles # Change to ports distfile directory rm -rdf * # Clean it out Why, exactly, you remove the distfiles? (I'm thnking of times when I haven't moved the hard-to-retrieve files [JAVA, e.g] to my other FBSD servers.) Is there something lurking there than might muck up builds?? I just like to remove files that are neither needed or more than likely outdated. No special reason other than that. I keep the files needed to build JAVA in a separate directory and copy them to the distfiles directory when required. It is pretty much up to the end user how they want to maintain their ports system I suppose. /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -CDLP# make sure the ports are clean I do this after an upgrade. ---Wouldn't hurt here, tho. /usr/sbin/portsnap cron # Run portsnap from CRON /usr/sbin/portsnap update # Install new updated ports tree /usr/local/bin/portmanager -u -l -y # Run portmanager to update the system I've come to prefer p'manager to portupgrade; each run takes endless hours--at least three days. Do you know if there is a way to upgrade only the dependencies that need it?? I used -f and portmanager seemed to upgrade eerything. Yes, it may have been my imagination! Portmanager -f will rebuild the system. I would only do that if it was absolutely necessary. The normal: portmanager -u -l -y will only update out of date items, create a log file and gives portmanager permission to handle moved items. I only run this weekly. If something like Open Office needs to be updated alone with KDE for instance, my system would not complete the process in 24 hours. Updating the ports tree while running an updating utility like portmanager or portupgrade is generally considered a bad thing. Thanks for your script ideas, gary -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whistler's mother is off her rocker. pgpiItxjvVlcD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How-to maintain upgrade??
Gerard Seibert writes: Why, exactly, you remove the distfiles? I just like to remove files that are neither needed or more than likely outdated. Are you aware of the DD option for portsclean? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How-to maintain upgrade??
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you aware of the DD option for portsclean? Yes, I have read the 'man' pages, or as they are routinely referred to: 'Much About Nothing' documentation. -- Gerard Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How-to maintain upgrade??
Gary Kline wrote: Last night (08 Oct 06) pkgdb -Fv ran without errors. This after five weeks of rebuilding. And now, I still haven't install gnome-lite; still waiting to get the ports upgrade issue resolved. I do a ports cvsup nightly and would like to run, say, portupgrade utils nightly as well. Among the upgraders-elite on this list, which is the best way to cron this. Just a few (5, 6) years ago I only bothered with this weekly, sending myself weekend reminders to upgrade. Now I want to put something into cron. Suggestions on using port* and whatever very welcome indeed! thanks up front, people, gary Some ports when you upgrade them require answers to questions, so I wouldn't portupgrade -aP via cron. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How-to maintain upgrade??
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:35:37PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 17:53, Gary Kline wrote: I kind of do the same thing on a weekly basis. I created a shell script that runs the following: cd /usr/ports/distfiles # Change to ports distfile directory rm -rdf * # Clean it out Why, exactly, you remove the distfiles? (I'm thnking of times when I haven't moved the hard-to-retrieve files [JAVA, e.g] to my other FBSD servers.) Is there something lurking there than might muck up builds?? /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -CDLP # make sure the ports are clean I do this after an upgrade. ---Wouldn't hurt here, tho. /usr/sbin/portsnap cron # Run portsnap from CRON /usr/sbin/portsnap update # Install new updated ports tree /usr/local/bin/portmanager -u -l -y # Run portmanager to update the system I've come to prefer p'manager to portupgrade; each run takes endless hours--at least three days. Do you know if there is a way to upgrade only the dependencies that need it?? I used -f and portmanager seemed to upgrade eerything. Yes, it may have been my imagination! I only run this weekly. If something like Open Office needs to be updated alone with KDE for instance, my system would not complete the process in 24 hours. Updating the ports tree while running an updating utility like portmanager or portupgrade is generally considered a bad thing. Thanks for your script ideas, gary -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] And that's the way it is... Walter Cronkite -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
