From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 13:13:33 2003 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 0D5F237B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:13:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com [171.70.145.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8224F43F93 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:13:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sjt@cisco.com) Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (8.12.2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1OLDDsv023307; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:13:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [161.44.193.44]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22159; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:13:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id QAA06053; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:13:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:13:29 -0500 From: Steve Tremblett To: Tom Parquette Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can portupgrade upgrade itself? Message-ID: <20030224161329.H24211@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <3E5A8A14.2080605@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3E5A8A14.2080605@twcny.rr.com>; from tparquet@twcny.rr.com on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:09:40PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +---- Tom Parquette wrote: | I've been automating some routine stuff on my machine and one of them is | cvsuping ports-all and pulling the distfiles overnight (while everybody | is asleep.) Keeping portupgrade right up to date feels like the right | thing to do and I was thinking about adding this to the shell script I'm | writing. | | This sounds like a chicken and egg question but, can the portupgrade | tool safely upgrade itself? In other words, adding portupgrade -Rr | portupgrade in the script after the cvsup run. | TIA... Works just fine - I do it frequently -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message