Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:13:10 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port update advice Message-ID: <46AD7366.7000600@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <002b01c7d266$c11a1e40$0807a8c0@admin> References: <20070730034945.838AC16A419@hub.freebsd.org> <002b01c7d266$c11a1e40$0807a8c0@admin>
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Graham Bentley wrote:
> 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 :)
>
portsnap fetch update is better than portsnap fetch extract. fetch
update reduces the amount of required extracting as it only changes the
updated files.
Cheers,
-Garrett
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