Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:33:43 -0400 From: "Bill Stwalley" <stwalley2004@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best way to update ports Message-ID: <687f2b920710102233ve746e2auece74d1e95486e73@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen servers with minimal efforts. As I gathered, I should run portaudit in cron jobs and then manually update the ports with vulnerabilities after reading UPDATING. Is this the best way? Is this manual way feasible for managing a dozen servers? I used to run portupgrade in cron jobs, but that created too much nightmare. For example, imap-uw broke for a few days recently. Someone recommended http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html . It's great for maintaining machines with identical ports installed, but not good when ports are installed with different options on different servers. Thanks, Bill
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