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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:13:29 -0500
From:      Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
To:        Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can portupgrade upgrade itself?
Message-ID:  <20030224161329.H24211@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E5A8A14.2080605@twcny.rr.com>; from tparquet@twcny.rr.com on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:09:40PM -0500
References:  <3E5A8A14.2080605@twcny.rr.com>

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+---- Tom Parquette wrote:
| I've been automating some routine stuff on my machine and one of them is 
| cvsuping ports-all and pulling the distfiles overnight (while everybody 
| is asleep.)  Keeping portupgrade right up to date feels like the right 
| thing to do and I was thinking about adding this to the shell script I'm 
| writing.
| 
| This sounds like a chicken and egg question but, can the portupgrade 
| tool safely upgrade itself? In other words, adding portupgrade -Rr 
| portupgrade in the script after the cvsup run.
| TIA...

Works just fine - I do it frequently

-- 
Steve Tremblett

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