Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:56:36 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie questions about updating Message-ID: <46E182C4.8030101@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <18145.15301.205386.889566@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <adb998e60709062235y629b7eedjd9e00de98432c313@mail.gmail.com> <20070907014230.K45407@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <18145.15301.205386.889566@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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That is the correct but I prefer to use portsnap for ports and keep cvsup just for core OS! Robert Huff wrote: > Lars Eighner writes: > > >> > assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate >> > supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding >> > this correctly? >> > > [deletia] > > >> Many people do it it two operations because they really are two >> different things. >> > > Another reason is to (theoretically) limit possible damage is > things Go Horribly Wrong and make the post-mortem easier. > I have a cron job that updates the base OS, the docs (a > separate entity), and the ports every night at midnight. Once it > connects, the update take less than five minutes. (Except for rare > occasions.) Aside from bugs introduced by my attempts to improve > the script, this has run without porblem for years. > > > > Robert Huff > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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