Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:40:40 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Upgrade suggestion Message-ID: <20070326234039.GA69881@thought.org>
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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
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