From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 03:04:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E1D1065678 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skeptikos@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D958FC1C for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skeptikos@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so1413916wra.13 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3DR1f4CWgi1rq7kbB/1ong/SbSbb/O8kVf1IMP0LG5o=; b=OPbug9cTt1vnq4DOwiYkGUPzYT/m1ywV/ddFQkEe59EprVFzZ5/n+XZkQrmz8byjEw04p4knNyCMgdu5EX8E8ELQoVsReEtRd+diH0w5LQwfL2msNukw0dpLYAHMG8BGgCTvRy6PpQru63tpA4sJ27FsrTNmEn+LPTEW60Gl+sQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=O2EQF6TYvfJYZaj3od+g4uDqSOKTdEbsV2oiuvlORPFTWID7+m4blNOGie5CKw3aN33jQj0QhaBLX2uUdz9cLOpsxzf5t0FmiEdB0RDtHJwSPPhwOqR0JGeDVeEeFIeo59nCrFzhdDGy3uMd+EkfYkHQ7hQ/uB2mx7GUkYFxmAU= Received: by 10.141.74.17 with SMTP id b17mr253429rvl.113.1208919849064; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [70.162.19.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g31sm9258382rvb.7.2008.04.22.20.04.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:18 -0700 From: christopher To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080422200418.6afcdc84.skeptikos@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <480E66DD.4040008@nerdshack.com> References: <20080420211717.be366660.skeptikos@gmail.com> <480C1E3F.2020300@highperformance.net> <480DFDEE.5020303@brianwhalen.net> <480E66DD.4040008@nerdshack.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: port management practices X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:04:11 -0000 On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:29:49 +0200 Ravna wrote: > It's my philosophy, that a little each day, is better than lots, once in > a while. > Cron updates my ports tree every night and does a "portupgrade -a" > after that. > The output is saved to a file, so I can deal with problems. > I do a "buildworld/buildkernel" every week, if there are changes in the > source. Wow, that's bold. I have to say, that while it seems to make sense, I'm pretty scared of trying it out. I would hate to think that I wake up and openoffice doesn't work for the paper I have to write. One of these days when I get an extra machine up and running, I'll be sure to try it though. -- christopher