port management practices

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Jason C. Wells wrote:
> christopher wrote:
>> Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of
>> keeping them up-to-date?
>
> I don't.
>
> It's too much work. I don't update ports for the duration of a major 
> release's life.  What ever ports came out for 6.3 (that's when I quit 
> trying to manage ports) are typically what I am running.  When 7.1 is 
> released (I don't run x.0 releases) I will reinstall ports based on a 
> homegrown script and a couple text files.
>
> My response is brief but I'll tell you I have tried everything. There 
> was much suffering that went into my ports management method. I'm much 
> happier now. I spend more time using my computers and less time 
> maintaining them.
>
> The problem is non-trivial.  I am curious how -ports folks maintain 
> their sanity.  That's a phenomena worth studying.

There is a lot of work/buzz about redoing major portions of the ports 
system to make it easier to work with and faster to do upgrades see 
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsToDo and do some googling for "ports 2.0"
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
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