From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 30 05:02:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CE016A468 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@cpcnw.co.uk) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6335613C46E for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@cpcnw.co.uk) Received: from [81.174.174.115] (helo=admin) by pih-relay04.plus.net with smtp (Exim) id 1IFNOa-0008Gq-Ou for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:02:16 +0100 Message-ID: <002b01c7d266$c11a1e40$0807a8c0@admin> From: "Graham Bentley" To: References: <20070730034945.838AC16A419@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:01:56 +0100 Organization: Custom PC North West MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 Subject: Port update advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Graham Bentley List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:02:18 -0000 Hi All, Following a Portsnap Fetch / Extract on top of a base install what is the best strategy for keeping ports updated? I think maybe it would be a waste of time / bandwidth to fetch the entire ports again or on a weekly basis so am guessing here that I should be checking to see which ports I have installed that have updates? What is the best method / tool to use in this case? Thanks in advance :)