From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 23:34:17 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 B616316A400 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD2413C44C for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 29 Jun 2007 19:34:14 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with ESMTP id NMT59409; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:34:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 65-78-26-179.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([65.78.26.179]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 29 Jun 2007 19:34:04 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18053.38636.915030.238090@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:34:04 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070629231452.GK18911@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20070629231452.GK18911@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Subject: running portupgrade -a 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: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:34:17 -0000 Michael P. Soulier writes: > As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to > look for potential issues with every package that you're going to > upgrade. So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely > haven't checked for issues for your system? I cannot remember the last time I did this. Why? 1) I update regularly, at least twice a week. (Exception: OpenOffice.) It usually takes an hour or so. 2) portupgrade is not bullet-proof. More than once over the years it's exploded over a single port, with consequences for the pkgdb. Clean-up was sometimes trivial ... and sometimes horrendous. As a result, even when I've checked for known issues I am unintersted in a (supposedly) "fire and forget" process involving (in one case) 600+ ports. Robert Huff