From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 20:31:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C80E106566B for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:31:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexmiroslav@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551C28FC12 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbwc18 with SMTP id wc18so1584193obb.13 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:31:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=KRr5lolfGSmDXTF5U6+tYHmHAkMSGl8pedLUW+F7jws=; b=HzflaGeoRx6Bj3y4Wf/E/36lrh0Yrdbby9XDdrimvS+vffbWIw5qR+doL81KcEdmWb JF77GdI6qh4YabpWozYtHHpd1p1+EM19Qb9PSSOpGbX6IG/ataI88TcP7U5w3OG7VYdH ukLvlRRc0xk5fOSxO/l1XrlWGRopMwg2i1c5+qRaVJcFHC0PrAe9XsKuoJPt1aqaNW4i d8+Q8FbgJcFntfIWKHPT6CtZ9aVGiQJXm/1LYrR21GpDuQ8cElKki7keSGz1/Xdv32Bt aMXAvBu6IywG0gp8DBaBjzvSA400EztdPp1cW8u4W2rJYgKDjzQEf4A+TQH5SyVUA9Rd 9NqA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.15.102 with SMTP id w6mr4808198obc.6.1333139509701; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.143.104 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:31:49 -0400 Message-ID: From: Aleksandr Miroslav To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: how often to update 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: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:31:50 -0000 How often do you folks update your ports/packages. I was manging two servers for years for my personal web/email, and I've rarely gone for more than 3 months with any single package being not up to date, usually about once a month I would update all my ports. Recently, in the past few months or so, I've added several more servers, I currently have around 10 servers that I'm managing, and because of changes in my work schedule, it has become somewhat quite tedious to do this (keep ports updated as frequently, I mean). >From what I've gleaned from this list and other BSD mailing lists that I'm on, is that some people don't update their port-installed packages nearly as frequently (security patches/updates aside). Some people go for months/years without doing so. So I'm curious, how often do you keep your ports update, and what are the reasons for doing so?