From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 19:56:24 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 6613216A41F for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:56:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from postfix.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA38B43D66 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:56:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: by postfix.bsdforen.de (Postfix, from userid 20000) id B6FE3684A26; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (postfix [127.0.0.3]) by postfix.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B21684A24; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix.bsdforen.de ([127.0.0.3]) by localhost (postfix.bsdforen.de [127.0.0.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24310-02-3; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from loki (p549CF140.dip.t-dialin.net [84.156.241.64]) by postfix.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D4D684A1F; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:05 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss To: "Kiffin Gish" Message-ID: <20051203205605.75367bfe@loki> In-Reply-To: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH> References: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Sat__3_Dec_2005_20_56_05_+0100_PzUzpbu57GRll5rJ; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bsdforen.de X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9997 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 4391f865260964385913102 X-DSPAM-User: global 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: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:56:24 -0000 --Signature_Sat__3_Dec_2005_20_56_05_+0100_PzUzpbu57GRll5rJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100 "Kiffin Gish" wrote: > Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run > portupgrades. >=20 > 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! >=20 > Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? >=20 > Thanks alot in advance. Everybody has to figure out that one for himself, so, here is my rule of thumb: Upgrade your ports only when you need to. If all installed ports work fine and a new version doesn't introduce some functionality you simply need to have, why update? Just for the sake of updateing? Joerg --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | c7e4 d91d 64e2 6321 9988 | | \ / campaign against | 0xb248b614 | f27a 4e5b 06ce b248 b614 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is a lie. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was true. | --Signature_Sat__3_Dec_2005_20_56_05_+0100_PzUzpbu57GRll5rJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDkfhdTlsGzrJIthQRAjygAJ49m89RWpCfSmc2SInfep7HUIPZFACbBq4O czhKVyMuS5d+IxSABuQ+KoY= =Ue3s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__3_Dec_2005_20_56_05_+0100_PzUzpbu57GRll5rJ--