How often portupgrades?

[Benjamin Thelen]

> Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run
> portupgrades.

Kiffin,

In my opinion, there is no. If you need an upgrade, go for it, if not, why
portupgrade? You don't need to follow each little jump of version.


>
> I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs
> it can take up to a few hours to complete which seems like an unnecessary
> hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the complete gnome port
> which took a couple days!

I think, that's how it is. You are off better of having a fast machine to
create your packages yourselves, which you then distribute to slower
machines.

Mine is a PIII/1,13 I run portupgrade between once a week and once a
month. Compiling time (I use KDE) is usually done within one night.
The last gnomeupdate.sh wasn't funny. That infact took the machine days to
rebuild all the ports.

Hope that helps a little.

Ben

>
> Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits?
>
> Thanks alot in advance.
>
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> Kiffin Gish
> Gouda, The Netherlands
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