From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 21:36:07 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 6DD2316A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:36:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B49043D55 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:35:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:22590 helo=ZGISH) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EjO03-000Cb1-6J; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:35:55 +0000 From: "Kiffin Gish" To: "'Kris Anderson'" , Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:35:54 +0100 Message-ID: <000201c5f9e3$df44fd20$2101a8c0@ZGISH> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-reply-to: <20051205212105.3004.qmail@web52713.mail.yahoo.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal 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 21:36:07 -0000 Yes, I believe that using portaudit as a kind of pre-selection tool for filtering out important updates is a good way of doing things. Do a cronjob every week or so and see what it has to say. Thanks a lot. -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Anderson [mailto:ciscoaix@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 22:21 > To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? > > > > > --- 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 >