Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:31:49 -0400 From: Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how often to update ports? Message-ID: <CACcSE1xOcqGoRSwfYKgAGNYUvXB488Je5j2NNcWb5JfTD741fw@mail.gmail.com>
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How often do you folks update your ports/packages. I was manging two servers for years for my personal web/email, and I've rarely gone for more than 3 months with any single package being not up to date, usually about once a month I would update all my ports. Recently, in the past few months or so, I've added several more servers, I currently have around 10 servers that I'm managing, and because of changes in my work schedule, it has become somewhat quite tedious to do this (keep ports updated as frequently, I mean). >From what I've gleaned from this list and other BSD mailing lists that I'm on, is that some people don't update their port-installed packages nearly as frequently (security patches/updates aside). Some people go for months/years without doing so. So I'm curious, how often do you keep your ports update, and what are the reasons for doing so?
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