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

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>David Wolfskill wrote:
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>>>Running a desktop box with a dialup PPP connection
>>>to the 'Net, my "portupgrade -aRr" tends to take a
>>>      
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>>couple of days ....
>>
>>Hmm....  You may find "portupgrade -aF" ("just fetch") useful during
>>periods when you don't especially want to destabilize the machine, but
>>you have connectivity.
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>Or if you have access to another machine with a fast connection and a
>CD burner, you could use "-n" (don't do anything) to see what packages
>would be upgraded, fetch those distfiles on the other machine, and
>bring them to your dialup-connected machine on a CD.
>
>Rahul
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>

Now that sounds like it may be a great idea ---
scheduling via cron at the colo; now I'll just have
to get a burner on those servers, hmm....

Thanks!

KDK