From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 13:56:15 2003 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 9C1D037B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts9.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F227943E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:56:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.99.252]) by tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030204215607.HFND7531.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca>; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:56:07 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030204165401.00bb4650@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 16:55:40 -0500 To: "Beech Rintoul" From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: RE: portupgrading problems Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <200302042007.h14K74m06181@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:14 AM 2/4/2003 -0900, you wrote: > -----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Toomas Aas >Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:06 AM >To: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: portupgrading problems > > > > Can someone explain the best way to deal with the updating process? How to > > minimize updating problems? > >If it ain't broken, don't upgrade it ;-) >-- >Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ >* Life would be easier if I had the source code. > >I use portupgrade (in the ports). It does a very good job with both updates >and keeping the dependencies straight. So do I, but sometimes things get screwed up, for me at least. I usually update every week-end... Don't you ever have problems updating? PJ >Beech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Beech Rintoul - Network Administrator - akbeech@northwindcom.net >/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications >\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99518-1841 > No More Spam! http://www.knockmail.com/default.asp?AID=B0R00073 >/ \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message