Curious...how often do *you* portupgrade(1) ?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Feb 11 15:12:41 PST 2004


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:08:00PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection
> to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a
> couple of days ....
> 
> I'd taken to dealing with it once a month.
> 
> It occurs to me that it might actually be less
> painful to do it more often ...
> 
> What's your plan?

Keep an eye on changes to the ports collection and upgrade when needed
(security fixes, bug fixes, new version with new features in the
applications I use), and when safe (no reported instability).

Kris
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