From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 6 5:32:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B727037B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:32:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from PIKES.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF08043EA9 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@pennasoft.com) Received: from waumbek ([172.17.2.36]) by PIKES.panasas.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id XA31H9YQ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:32:29 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: chris@pennasoft.com Organization: PennaSoft Corporation To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update strategies Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:32:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <5FCDFD3A-08CB-11D7-86ED-003065A9024A@ish.com.au> <04d001c29cea$951ecfe0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> In-Reply-To: <04d001c29cea$951ecfe0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212060832.29240.chris@pennasoft.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 06 December 2002 00:44, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > I cvsup the source 3x/week via cron, ports slightly less often, and > buildworld when I feel like it (which isn't TOO often) or when > there's a security announcement made. Polite inquiry: why are you cvsup'ing so often when you only rebuild seldom? You're generating extra load on the cvsup mirror that you're using to no productive end. > I'm looking into portupgrade to update ports, it seems like it's > going to be cool! It is. Once you have a populated /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, it can save you a lot of time. I'm still not willing to do "portupgrade -aF" nightly, but it still saves me time. --=20 Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com=20 Principal Consultant =20 PennaSoft Corporation =20 chris@pennasoft.com =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message