Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:32:52 +0200 From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> To: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Running portupgrade from cron (was: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs) Message-ID: <DB5443F8-9978-413C-8A5A-9E08189F1BAD@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <CADLo838wJoG-RbnoUDoypES_6uzjjLfcO=A1AoTjWxYZrPxFMg@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.v1y8gdtf8527sy@pinky> <20110918045413.GA63773@DataIX.net> <20110918053901.GA31617@icarus.home.lan> <op.v1zrszht8527sy@pinky> <86d3eydsmf.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <CAOnPXZ9z2MoZ7uxyUQzBx3Lz1mhY-2JKxO0mepzMp81J4WEVtw@mail.gmail.com> <20111008002707.GA76128@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20111012222535.GB79291@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20111014120336.GB31718@stack.nl> <08C7028B-10E1-4855-B007-D2257216F077@lassitu.de> <CADLo838wJoG-RbnoUDoypES_6uzjjLfcO=A1AoTjWxYZrPxFMg@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 23.10.2011 um 08:47 schrieb Chris Rees: > Worst of all, you're running portupgrade from cron without reading = UPDATING, > which is just asking for trouble. What specifically is your concern here? I've been running portupgrade from cron for six years on a multitude of = systems with great success. Yes, occasionally, things break, and = reading UPDATING becomes a necessity, but I much prefer the nightly = upgrade to running portupgrade by hand less frequently, especially when = you have to do it on 20 or more machines. Note that most of these boxes have very limited SLAs, and dealing with = the occasional breakage is much less work than regular manual = maintainance. I decided to do this after I got bitten one too many times trying to = upgrade ports after three to four months, and getting stuck in all kinds = of bad dependencies. Daily upgrades usually means that I catch every = single update by itself, so complex interdependencies are exactly what = the committer tested. Stefan --=20 Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811
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