Newbie questions about updating

[Predrag Punosevac]

That is the correct but I prefer to use portsnap for ports and keep 
cvsup just for core OS!

Robert Huff wrote:
> Lars Eighner writes:
>
>   
>>  > assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate
>>  > supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports.  Am I understanding
>>  > this correctly?
>>     
>
> 	[deletia]
>   
>   
>>  Many people do it it two operations because they really are two
>>  different things.
>>     
>
> 	Another reason is to (theoretically) limit possible damage is
> things Go Horribly Wrong and make the post-mortem easier.
> 	I have a cron job that updates the base OS, the docs (a
> separate entity), and the ports every night at midnight.  Once it
> connects, the update take less than five minutes.  (Except for rare
> occasions.)  Aside from bugs introduced by my attempts to improve
> the script, this has run without porblem for years.
>
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
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