From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 17:57: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mycenae.ilion.eu.org (mycenae.ilion.eu.org [203.35.206.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADF214D08 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrykz@mycenae.ilion.eu.org) Received: from mycenae.ilion.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mycenae.ilion.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10829; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:56:31 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from patrykz@mycenae.ilion.eu.org) Message-Id: <199909260056.KAA10829@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> To: Christian Carstensen Cc: Chris Costello , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating packages automatically... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:11:32 +0200." Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:56:31 +1000 From: Patryk Zadarnowski Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > Aah! No! I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane > > for about two weeks. > > > > Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially > > for those using apache from ports! > > that's right. i thought about having some kind of exclude list for ports > that shall never be upgraded automatically. anyway, the script will just > generate a shell script output. it should not replace packages without > manual intervention. If most FreeBSD users are like me, you should set up an include list instead. Then, it could actually be sort of useful. Most people would use it to auto-upgrade packages for beta and other unstable software. However, I think that an /etc/periodic/weekly script that reports on which packages are outdated in the weekly report would be a much more welcome utility ;) Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message