From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 19:00:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16E8816A49C for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:00:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9584543D45 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:00:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EP2pz-0003ON-6R for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:57:27 +0200 Received: from r5k101.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:57:27 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k101.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:57:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:56:17 +0200 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <200510061324.37587.mback99@telia.com> <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k101.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050925 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <43453AA1.1060601@freebsd.org> Sender: news Subject: Re: How often cvsup the 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: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:00:14 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > >>On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman wrote: >> >>>I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. >>>How often should I cvsup the ports? >> >>If you like being up-to-date, you should consider >>using portsnap, which is much more efficient than >>cvsup. You can update every other couple of hours >>then - and you'll probably waste less bandwidth >>in a week than you would with cvsup in one run. > > > Portsnap certainly is more efficient than cvsup for > frequent updating, but for most people, updating the > ports tree every 2 hours is rather pointless. On my > 6.0-beta systems, I have a nightly cron job which runs > > portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL= > colin, what is this "I" parameter to pkg_version supposed to be? i don't seem to have it here on 5.4R. cheers, martin > which downloads updates, builds new ports INDEX files, > and emails me a list of installed packages which are > out of date. > > When I get such an email, I log into the system and run > > portsnap update && portupgrade -a > > which updates the ports tree and rebuilds the installed > packages which are out of date. > > Between FreeBSD Update, portsnap, and portupgrade, I > doubt I spend more than half an hour per month keeping > each system up to date. > > Colin Percival