Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. >>How often should I cvsup the ports? > > If you like being up-to-date, you should consider > using portsnap, which is much more efficient than > cvsup. You can update every other couple of hours > then - and you'll probably waste less bandwidth > in a week than you would with cvsup in one run.
Portsnap certainly is more efficient than cvsup for frequent updating, but for most people, updating the ports tree every 2 hours is rather pointless. On my 6.0-beta systems, I have a nightly cron job which runs portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL= which downloads updates, builds new ports INDEX files, and emails me a list of installed packages which are out of date. When I get such an email, I log into the system and run portsnap update && portupgrade -a which updates the ports tree and rebuilds the installed packages which are out of date. Between FreeBSD Update, portsnap, and portupgrade, I doubt I spend more than half an hour per month keeping each system up to date. Colin Percival _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
