Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:56:17 +0200 From: martinko <martinkov@pobox.sk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often cvsup the ports? Message-ID: <diedgh$mig$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org> References: <200510061324.37587.mback99@telia.com> <cb5206420510060521k2dd0ecder242d91dc3566fcb2@mail.gmail.com> <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > >>On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman <mback99@telia.com> 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= > colin, what is this "I" parameter to pkg_version supposed to be? i don't seem to have it here on 5.4R. cheers, martin > 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 out of date.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 packages which are out of date.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
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