Ports/Packages Philosophy

Eric eric at mikestammer.com
Wed May 7 01:02:28 UTC 2008


Dsiuh Djsids wrote:
> I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, do you run something like 'portupgrade -a' or individually take care of each piece of software? 
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i run portsnap 2x a day via cron and usually update within a day or 2. i 
always use ports and never packages. i use portmanager -a to upgrade.


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