Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:22:01 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? Message-ID: <200402111522.01546.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> References: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz>
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On February 11, 2004 03:08 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection > to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a > couple of days .... > I'd taken to dealing with it once a month. > It occurs to me that it might actually be less > painful to do it more often ... > What's your plan? Do the upgrade in steps. First, fetch any needed distfiles for all updated programs. Then you can do the actual compiles / upgrades at your leisure, without having to be connected. Run portupgrade twice, once with the -F parameter, and once without. I haven't had to deal with dial-up in awhile, but a few of our remote sites only have switched-56K, 64K wireless, or slow 128K ADSL. Doing it this way makes life so much easier for everybody. I schedule the downloads at night, and do the actual updates in the background during the day. I update the ports tree and INDEX files every Tuesday via cron, or manually when there's security upgrades involved (freshports is great). But, I do all my upgrades manually, only upgrading the bits I want or need, and only if there's more than a minor version bump. I have yet to run a portupgrade with -arR. :) Of course, these are all production servers, and my work laptop. :) -- Freddie Cash fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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