From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 10:28:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3302C106564A for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg20.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [195.66.148.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9B48FC15 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.131] (93-97-172-73.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.172.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg20.ifdnrg.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6RA7x0X097711; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:07:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4C4EAFFC.7080209@ifdnrg.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:07:56 +0100 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: claudiu vasadi References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apps update from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:28:40 -0000 > I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon > as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the "if it > works, don't touch it" strategy ? > > I'm guessing "portupgrade" is your preferred way of doing this hence, do you > also choose -P or -PP ? I update mine regularly, pretty much as they come out. On occassion you will find that bugs are found with updates and that a new version will be bumped a day or so later, but someone has to find the bugs! I use portmaster on some machines, portupgrade on most. Doug Barton recently added extra logging to portmaster which now enables audit tracing so you can log what was updated when, portupgrade has a switch to log to a file but there's not as much detail and no datestamps. Paul. -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------