Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:05:00 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what "port*" string can I crontab that will *work*? Message-ID: <20070312160500.173fe5cf@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070312194100.GA17033@thought.org> References: <20070312194100.GA17033@thought.org>
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--Sig_pXDiB3wrex8Lo=u0KI+KDZ8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:41:00 -0800 Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping=20 > ports current? I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to > 6.2 (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade > with several variants of flags/switches. portuprade with=20 > -rpfP wound up recycling my packages most of the time. [?] > I've starting to think that there may be no way of doing this > automatically. portmanager -b -u -l may be better:: dunno. >=20 > thanks for some insights here, Actually, I use something like that. I created a script that runs both portsnap and portmanager. #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update /usr/local/bin/portmanager -u -l -p I call this script from CRON once a week. It seems to work quite well. If you have a MAILTO in CRON, it will even give you a print out of what transpired. You can just send output to /dev/null of course. Do make sure you have the latest version of 'portmanager' installed. It was recently updated. You cannot update it using itself. You must use the 'make install && make clean' method. If you are not familiar with 'portsnap', just read the manual. --=20 Gerard If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. Anton Chekov --Sig_pXDiB3wrex8Lo=u0KI+KDZ8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF9bJsFCqdq4D1ybYRAk1fAJ9UjmT1x7hW0beCcxpKOdCkSve8zgCg4b/w HBC/NEcYAXyUGOnfxPwJGm8= =rJ+g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_pXDiB3wrex8Lo=u0KI+KDZ8--
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