Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:02:28 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: christopher <skeptikos@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port management practices Message-ID: <480C1FE4.9050609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <480C1E3F.2020300@highperformance.net> References: <20080420211717.be366660.skeptikos@gmail.com> <480C1E3F.2020300@highperformance.net>
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Jason C. Wells wrote: > christopher wrote: >> Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of >> keeping them up-to-date? > > I don't. > > It's too much work. I don't update ports for the duration of a major > release's life. What ever ports came out for 6.3 (that's when I quit > trying to manage ports) are typically what I am running. When 7.1 is > released (I don't run x.0 releases) I will reinstall ports based on a > homegrown script and a couple text files. > > My response is brief but I'll tell you I have tried everything. There > was much suffering that went into my ports management method. I'm much > happier now. I spend more time using my computers and less time > maintaining them. > > The problem is non-trivial. I am curious how -ports folks maintain > their sanity. That's a phenomena worth studying. There is a lot of work/buzz about redoing major portions of the ports system to make it easier to work with and faster to do upgrades see http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsToDo and do some googling for "ports 2.0" > > Regards, > Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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