Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:12:40 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? Message-ID: <20040211231240.GA427@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> References: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:08:00PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wro= te: > Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection > to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a > couple of days .... >=20 > I'd taken to dealing with it once a month. >=20 > It occurs to me that it might actually be less > painful to do it more often ... >=20 > What's your plan? Keep an eye on changes to the ports collection and upgrade when needed (security fixes, bug fixes, new version with new features in the applications I use), and when safe (no reported instability). Kris --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAKrboWry0BWjoQKURAgvlAJ95bOEcb+BwAXB6cFBmEEwd3DkSEwCffGlA edXOTFXiuxbMVklEUSTIbNg= =VXNo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--
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