From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 15:22:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D451616A4D0 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (romulus-net.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42E943D1F for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from 192.168.0.200 (romulus-net.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.134]) i1BNEX7O003435 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:14:33 -0800 From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:22:01 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402111522.01546.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (enterprise.sd73.bc.ca) Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:22:22 -0000 On February 11, 2004 03:08 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection > to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a > couple of days .... > I'd taken to dealing with it once a month. > It occurs to me that it might actually be less > painful to do it more often ... > What's your plan? Do the upgrade in steps. First, fetch any needed distfiles for all updated programs. Then you can do the actual compiles / upgrades at your leisure, without having to be connected. Run portupgrade twice, once with the -F parameter, and once without. I haven't had to deal with dial-up in awhile, but a few of our remote sites only have switched-56K, 64K wireless, or slow 128K ADSL. Doing it this way makes life so much easier for everybody. I schedule the downloads at night, and do the actual updates in the background during the day. I update the ports tree and INDEX files every Tuesday via cron, or manually when there's security upgrades involved (freshports is great). But, I do all my upgrades manually, only upgrading the bits I want or need, and only if there's more than a minor version bump. I have yet to run a portupgrade with -arR. :) Of course, these are all production servers, and my work laptop. :) -- Freddie Cash fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca