From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 04:17:13 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 32795106567B for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:17:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skeptikos@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16CB8FC1D for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:17:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skeptikos@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2566455waf.3 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:17:12 -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:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FP5hBEamWdpgLWOSlLdu2WDUqAIvQgwIpbPsBh/GUns=; b=hOlPy5aAsSnOKAfoEDPn7+EEHffoppXeWqvdhK4cR0qlO9OBpwpRMEpSrwoPMFr/M96VVtUg1nhGTidcAb7AttcOX71MNlPvjAKgPLp/WvImr/sneqU93MOGjnKLu3Ab5BI3ujG4K9BH2LNrN0u1YbQKkm1PF0SjyMbEM5PFEcI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AElbiGT/eA+Pv21Iu+fvGPV847+rFvLuPIa203Fdey2fHb13CEo9Ym2aKyaVMSArC0AHve0/qqJN5E45TMOug938xGEyaY0PyqYtPZuL4kZ3S/XPZuyZYv1Yv7bYs/UuTgTqMwg7JhmSIfsh+rNMHgZVHCvwwHcuJZwB56ru2rg= Received: by 10.114.112.1 with SMTP id k1mr2416690wac.24.1208751432689; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [70.162.19.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m26sm6007497pof.6.2008.04.20.21.17.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:17:17 -0700 From: christopher To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080420211717.be366660.skeptikos@gmail.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: 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: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:17:13 -0000 Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of keeping them up-to-date? I know about csup, portupgrade, etc., and I think they are great, but if you only have one app that you want to upgrade because it was buggy at a previous time, then it doesn't seem like a practical undertaking when you consider all of the other apps involved and the build times for things such as openoffice and kde. (Though I don't use the latter, I do know it's a long process.) So, do you simply fetch the ports skeleton manually and take it from there? This has been my approach and it works fine, but I was just curious if there are other ways people are using. If you want a specific example, an openoffice 2.3 snapshot that was out there right around the new year there was a glib error that was causing it to hang in a loop. A patch was created and I think it has now been submitted. So of course since all of my other software is running fine, I don't need/want to deal with getting it all updated. Thanks for any input. ~ Chris -- christopher