Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:24:29 -0700 From: Brian <bri@brianwhalen.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port management practices Message-ID: <480F388D.8060108@brianwhalen.net> 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>
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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. > Nothing has ever been older than a few days. > I don't see why my box should be bored while I'm asleep. > It's always on, anyway. > What I am wondering re the above is how to cope with the ports that allow you to select options, I wouldn't cron this for that reason alone. I could see cronning the retrieval, but not the actual portupgrade. Brian
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