Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:22:37 +0100 (CET) From: "Benjamin Thelen" <thelen@ccgis.de> To: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? Message-ID: <39842.192.168.0.5.1134170557.squirrel@192.168.0.5> In-Reply-To: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH> References: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH>
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> Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run > portupgrades. Kiffin, In my opinion, there is no. If you need an upgrade, go for it, if not, why portupgrade? You don't need to follow each little jump of version. > > 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! I think, that's how it is. You are off better of having a fast machine to create your packages yourselves, which you then distribute to slower machines. Mine is a PIII/1,13 I run portupgrade between once a week and once a month. Compiling time (I use KDE) is usually done within one night. The last gnomeupdate.sh wasn't funny. That infact took the machine days to rebuild all the ports. Hope that helps a little. Ben > > Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? > > Thanks alot in advance. > > -------------------------------------------- > Kiffin Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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