Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:41:14 +0100 From: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? Message-ID: <1133696474.25444.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200512031751.33752.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH> <200512031751.33752.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the > dialogue on- > How often portupgrades?: > > >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. > > > You pays yr processing time and makes yr choice :-) > > I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I am > constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something > and then when I just need systems to carry on doing the same thing day after > day I get into the if it aint broke dont fix it mode! Then a new > application/need comes along and the cycle starts over again! > > david > Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than once every few months or so. > > > > -- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
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