From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 23:40:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF0316A403 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:40:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63A113C48A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:39:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2QNeeiH033950 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:40:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l2QNeeJ5033949 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:40:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:40:40 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20070326234039.GA69881@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: Upgrade suggestion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:40:00 -0000 Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take > 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for "urgent" when *foo*" goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. I Would've loved to have joined into the Coding ``love-in'' this coming summer, but my shoulder said, "ARE YOU AN IDIOT!" so not now. Besides, other tasks await. Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play. gary ....Still trying to learn French :-) PS: I hopefully will be upgrading//getting a faster used server to replace TAO. Even if that resolves part of my upgrade problem, I think we can do lots better with maintaining current ports. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix