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

Kevin Leung xhidem at yahoo.com.hk
Wed Feb 11 20:40:54 PST 2004


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 think just `portupgrade -aR` is ok, since all libraries should remain 
binary compatible. If not, they increase their major version number. And 
most of the time, you will find a port that is for the binary 
incompatible library. Eg gtk12, gtk20. That save you so much time when 
trying to upgrade.

I usually portupgrade every three or four days.



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