From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 11:41:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A849216A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:41:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5796C43D49 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:41:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:25807 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EisEx-0003lA-QN; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:41:11 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: Vizion In-Reply-To: <200512031751.33752.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH> <200512031751.33752.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:41:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1133696474.25444.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? 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: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:41:14 -0000 On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the > dialogue on- > How often portupgrades?: > > >Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run > > portupgrades. > > > >I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs it > > can take up to a few hours to complete which seems like an unnecessary > > hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the complete gnome port which > > took a couple days! > > > >Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? > > > >Thanks alot in advance. > > > You pays yr processing time and makes yr choice :-) > > I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I am > constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something > and then when I just need systems to carry on doing the same thing day after > day I get into the if it aint broke dont fix it mode! Then a new > application/need comes along and the cycle starts over again! > > david > Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than once every few months or so. > > > > -- Kiffin Gish