Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run
portupgrades.
Kiffin,
In my opinion, there is no. If you need an upgrade, go for it, if not, why
portupgrade? You don't need to follow each little jump of version.
I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each
--- 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
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
Kiffin Gish wrote:
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.
If you install portaudit, it shall be run every night during
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to
the
dialogue on-
How often portupgrades?:
Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run
portupgrades.
I figure that once a week should
Kiffin Gish wrote:
Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than
once every few months or so.
install portaudit, run portaudit -Fda, and make your own choice about
what to upgrade
with portaudit installed you will also see nightly portaudit-checks in
your daily
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote:
I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I am
constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something
and then when I just need systems to carry on
Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100
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
On Sunday 04 December 2005 03:41, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the
dialogue on-
Re: How often portupgrades?:
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to
the dialogue on-
How often portupgrades
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
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100
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
On Saturday 03 December 2005 19:56, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
Everybody has to figure out that one for himself, so, here is my
rule of thumb:
Upgrade your ports only when you need to.
If all installed ports work fine and a new version doesn't introduce
some functionality you simply need
On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the
dialogue on-
How often portupgrades?:
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
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