How often cvsup the ports?

martinko martinkov at pobox.sk
Mon Oct 10 12:00:14 PDT 2005


Colin Percival wrote:
> Andrew P. wrote:
> 
>>On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman <mback99 at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then.
>>>How often should I cvsup the ports?
>>
>>If you like being up-to-date, you should consider
>>using portsnap, which is much more efficient than
>>cvsup. You can update every other couple of hours
>>then - and you'll probably waste less bandwidth
>>in a week than you would with cvsup in one run.
> 
> 
> Portsnap certainly is more efficient than cvsup for
> frequent updating, but for most people, updating the
> ports tree every 2 hours is rather pointless.  On my
> 6.0-beta systems, I have a nightly cron job which runs
> 
>   portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL=
> 

colin,
what is this "I" parameter to pkg_version supposed to be?
i don't seem to have it here on 5.4R.
cheers,
martin

> which downloads updates, builds new ports INDEX files,
> and emails me a list of installed packages which are
> out of date.
> 
> When I get such an email, I log into the system and run
> 
>   portsnap update && portupgrade -a
> 
> which updates the ports tree and rebuilds the installed
> packages which are out of date.
> 
> Between FreeBSD Update, portsnap, and portupgrade, I
> doubt I spend more than half an hour per month keeping
> each system up to date.
> 
> Colin Percival



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