From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 9 10:14:08 2012 Return-Path: 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 C302A106564A for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from c.kworr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466408FC18 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so4167006bkc.13 for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:14:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pX9GBnh56SbCfIcZ1GTMpjzWzB9GDgSp8p+b4DeyVKg=; b=h81Uvy45bek3rxxeVHCKZnGBt7Faf16OS3C94eeazXpVLhAoCxvYo76Vc7PxSjCSNB ys2UNlNm4YOU/eX5pWgAthTVQ+guGhvm9pwJb2ix1NR8lWoifC1hI3W8JGgs98RcTaEX rILgluF1awvh27juSKz23Pf0pvxuuCG2dFOuX5sW1WnvSL/Gcc8phsyKucoTDDlG081H o+lPuMXQW0Lr36jPhsV5KT17Hzspld78gHMHhhhPb4RPHW6If8NkXd1o3FXkKT4GLlOK SFcq9F4Kin0PaD6/G9h+NGy6wT67x5Y/p4JcTJyhX4pfGKuy7znHWFMM2/VdkAPxGAvO o/AQ== Received: by 10.204.152.27 with SMTP id e27mr2781848bkw.55.1333966447317; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from green.tandem.local (25-191-132-95.pool.ukrtel.net. [95.132.191.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z17sm29047223bkw.12.2012.04.09.03.14.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F82B66B.1030608@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:14:03 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120315 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aleksandr Miroslav References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how often to update ports? 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: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:14:08 -0000 Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > How often do you folks update your ports/packages. I was manging two > servers for years for my personal web/email, and I've rarely gone for > more than 3 months with any single package being not up to date, > usually about once a month I would update all my ports. > > > Recently, in the past few months or so, I've added several more > servers, I currently have around 10 servers that I'm managing, and > because of changes in my work schedule, it has become somewhat quite > tedious to do this (keep ports updated as frequently, I mean). > >> From what I've gleaned from this list and other BSD mailing lists that > I'm on, is that some people don't update their port-installed packages > nearly as frequently (security patches/updates aside). Some people go > for months/years without doing so. > > So I'm curious, how often do you keep your ports update, and what are > the reasons for doing so? I update my desktops daily. The process is streamlined and doesn't need an eye on it. I'm updating servers weekly or so. This means I have smaller blob of updates and almost never face large updates that broke everything. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.