From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 23:21:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 839FA16A41F for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:21:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thelen@ccgis.de) Received: from sm7.simplethings.de (a15160313.alturo-server.de [217.160.128.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E53D43D86 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:21:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thelen@ccgis.de) Received: from smm.simplethings.de ([85.88.4.201]) by sm7.simplethings.de with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EkrYd-0008V6-P1; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:21:48 +0100 Received: from [212.79.172.180] (helo=center.shared) by smM.simplethings.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1EkrYd-0002ZV-FC; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:21:43 +0100 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=center.sz) by center.shared with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EkrZV-0005Qd-2U; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:22:37 +0100 Received: from 192.168.0.5 (proxying for 84.44.129.133) (SquirrelMail authenticated user thelen); by vogon.ccgis.de with HTTP; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:22:37 +0100 (CET) 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> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:22:37 +0100 (CET) From: "Benjamin Thelen" To: "Kiffin Gish" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? 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, 09 Dec 2005 23:21:54 -0000 > 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" >