Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:23:57 +0000 From: Peter McGarvey <fbsd-x@packet.org.uk> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? Message-ID: <20040214172357.GA71428@packet.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> References: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz>
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* Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <kdk@daleco.biz> [2004-02-11 23:10:50 GMT]:
> 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 ...
I run cvsup and portsclean from cron every night. And I add this:
weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES"
to /etc/periodic.conf to add a package status report to the weekly
reports... and I actually /read/ the reports.
Then I do a port upgrade when the number of non-important packages pass
a fuzzy threshold (about 5 usually - more if I'm feeling lazy, less if
I'm feeling keen). If it's something important (like, say, an exim
upgrade on a core mail server) I upgrade everything else a day or so
before, and upgrade the important stuff by itself. But I never upgrade
the important stuff without checking the CVS logs to see why a port has
been upgraded.
If I'm starting work on a box I'll run
/etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg
Manually to see if there are any out of date ports which could have any
relevance to what I'm about to do. If there are I'll upgrade them.
--
TTFN, FNORD
Peter McGarvey
Freelance FreeBSD Hacker
(will work for bandwidth)
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