Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:25:34 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what "port*" string can I crontab that will *work*? Message-ID: <20070312212534.GB76034@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <FF83DF36-1542-4606-A8E6-7F7B4E8EC7D4@mac.com> References: <20070312194100.GA17033@thought.org> <FF83DF36-1542-4606-A8E6-7F7B4E8EC7D4@mac.com>
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:48:59PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping > > ports current? I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to > > 6.2 (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade > > with several variants of flags/switches. portuprade with > > -rpfP wound up recycling my packages most of the time. [?] > > I've starting to think that there may be no way of doing this > > automatically. portmanager -b -u -l may be better:: dunno. > > Trying to set up something to update ports automatically works only > when the changes involved do not require human intervention to adjust > config files, restart services after the update, and so forth. > > In other words, this will work OK for a short period of time in the > face of minor version bumps, but as soon as a major change to one > port occurs which requires one to adjust or change a config file, an > automated update will break there. There is no free lunch with > regard to managing servers...a human eventually needs to oversee the > process. > Rats. :-)/2. I started saving current ports to /usr/ports/packages to be able to scp the tbz files around. But at least five pkg_add's would be required, depending. And five pkgdb -F's too. (*mumble*) thanks, gary > -- > -Chuck > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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