From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 14:55:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB09C16A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:55:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8FF43D48 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:55:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.84]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INY009ED1EQLW00@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:54:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INY00LA91EQPWG0@pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:54:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0INY004191EP3S@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:54:26 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:54:25 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: "Andrew P." Message-id: <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 References: <200510061324.37587.mback99@telia.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051001) Cc: FreeBsd List , Mikael Backman Subject: Re: How often cvsup the ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:55:02 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman wrote: >>I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. >>How often should I cvsup the ports? > > If you like being up-to-date, you should consider > using portsnap, which is much more efficient than > cvsup. You can update every other couple of hours > then - and you'll probably waste less bandwidth > in a week than you would with cvsup in one run. Portsnap certainly is more efficient than cvsup for frequent updating, but for most people, updating the ports tree every 2 hours is rather pointless. On my 6.0-beta systems, I have a nightly cron job which runs portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL= which downloads updates, builds new ports INDEX files, and emails me a list of installed packages which are out of date. When I get such an email, I log into the system and run portsnap update && portupgrade -a which updates the ports tree and rebuilds the installed packages which are out of date. Between FreeBSD Update, portsnap, and portupgrade, I doubt I spend more than half an hour per month keeping each system up to date. Colin Percival