From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 21:21:06 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 D7E3F16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:21:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: from web52713.mail.yahoo.com (web52713.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.48.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5676D43D55 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:21:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 3006 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Dec 2005 21:21:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=umCMKBJlPA8iHV1/ZDIgLtYEfPOgMNbZk8FaUQVUfPo3YQOd45AC1v9+rV2lj1q2vKNV2O8huEY44h7LHR77FTYEl8xqVrB2L5olMVj5Yj3MmCZFYWOVuZpSlPSdLN//a0iZq/210mMZQJTnJ9ZMEvDlzro4UWUyPrIMotkXYbM= ; Message-ID: <20051205212105.3004.qmail@web52713.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.210.226.206] by web52713.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:21:05 PST Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:21:05 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson To: Kiffin Gish , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? 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, 05 Dec 2005 21:21:07 -0000 --- Kiffin Gish wrote: > Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how > often to run portupgrades. > > I figure that once a week should be sufficient, > however each time it runs it can take up to a few > hours to complete which seems like an unnecessary > hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the > complete gnome port which took a couple days! > > Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? > > Thanks alot in advance. Kiffin, Interestingly enough I was glancing at one of the FreeBSD books and it said (I'm paraphrasing here) Uptime isn't something one should be proud of. If uptime is, for example, 350 days then darn it something probably needs updating. It just becomes more of a in-your-face sort of thing because then packages have to be fetched, compiled, installed and all that. Do the research to see what a portupgrade is going to touch and see what fixes there are. A good example for upgrading would be finding out that (I don't recall which program reports that a port has a given security issue and briefly tells you to either upgrade or uninstall) if a given port has a security fix for it. Did a smidge of research and I think it is portaudit found in security/portaudit. Alrighty, back to your question. If, for example, portaudit says there's a security issue and you are worried about it then upgrade (perhaps have portaudit run every night). I guess what I'm trying to say is --What ever you are comfortable with. Hope that helps. ~Mr. Anderson __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com