From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 05:02:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07DD1065671 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:02:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0168FC21 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:02:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JZN00IN6SOAHXR0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:02:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3L52X1v007415; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:02:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:02:28 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <480C1E3F.2020300@highperformance.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" Message-id: <480C1FE4.9050609@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 References: <20080420211717.be366660.skeptikos@gmail.com> <480C1E3F.2020300@highperformance.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080413) Cc: christopher , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port management practices X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:02:36 -0000 Jason C. Wells wrote: > christopher wrote: >> Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of >> keeping them up-to-date? > > I don't. > > It's too much work. I don't update ports for the duration of a major > release's life. What ever ports came out for 6.3 (that's when I quit > trying to manage ports) are typically what I am running. When 7.1 is > released (I don't run x.0 releases) I will reinstall ports based on a > homegrown script and a couple text files. > > My response is brief but I'll tell you I have tried everything. There > was much suffering that went into my ports management method. I'm much > happier now. I spend more time using my computers and less time > maintaining them. > > The problem is non-trivial. I am curious how -ports folks maintain > their sanity. That's a phenomena worth studying. There is a lot of work/buzz about redoing major portions of the ports system to make it easier to work with and faster to do upgrades see http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsToDo and do some googling for "ports 2.0" > > Regards, > Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >