From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 09:23:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B7916A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:23:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate.packet.org.uk (spr1-with1-3-0-cust50.manc.broadband.ntl.com [80.5.52.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F4043D1D for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd-x@packet.org.uk) Received: from xaphod by mailgate.packet.org.uk with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.8) id 1As3WH-000Ig5-AE; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:23:57 +0000 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:23:57 +0000 From: Peter McGarvey To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Message-ID: <20040214172357.GA71428@packet.org.uk> References: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <402AB5D0.8070008@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:24:00 -0000 * Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [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 If I'm starting work on a box I'll run /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg Manually to see if there are any out of date ports which could have any relevance to what I'm about to do.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)