From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 17:00:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55A316A468 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp102.math.arizona.edu (smtp102.math.arizona.edu [128.196.102.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31AF13C4E5 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IThBh-00063Y-O9 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:00:10 -0700 Received: from 71-220-146-155.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.146.155] helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1IThBd-00063C-OU; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:00:05 -0700 Message-ID: <46E182C4.8030101@math.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:56:36 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff , questions@freebsd.org References: <20070907014230.K45407@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <18145.15301.205386.889566@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <18145.15301.205386.889566@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: Subject: Re: Newbie questions about updating 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, 07 Sep 2007 17:00:14 -0000 That is the correct but I prefer to use portsnap for ports and keep cvsup just for core OS! Robert Huff wrote: > Lars Eighner writes: > > >> > assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate >> > supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding >> > this correctly? >> > > [deletia] > > >> Many people do it it two operations because they really are two >> different things. >> > > Another reason is to (theoretically) limit possible damage is > things Go Horribly Wrong and make the post-mortem easier. > I have a cron job that updates the base OS, the docs (a > separate entity), and the ports every night at midnight. Once it > connects, the update take less than five minutes. (Except for rare > occasions.) Aside from bugs introduced by my attempts to improve > the script, this has run without porblem for years. > > > > Robert Huff > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >