Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:54:25 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBsd List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Mikael Backman <mback99@telia.com> Subject: Re: How often cvsup the ports? Message-ID: <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510060521k2dd0ecder242d91dc3566fcb2@mail.gmail.com> References: <200510061324.37587.mback99@telia.com> <cb5206420510060521k2dd0ecder242d91dc3566fcb2@mail.gmail.com>
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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-vIL= which downloads updates, builds new ports INDEX files, and emails me a list of installed packages which are out of date.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and run portsnap update && portupgrade -a which updates the ports tree and rebuilds the installed packages which are out of date.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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