On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to > the > dialogue on- > How often portupgrades?: > > >Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run > > portupgrades. > > > >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! > > > >Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? > > > >Thanks alot in advance. > > > You pays yr processing time and makes yr choice :-) > > I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I > am > constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something > and then when I just need systems to carry on doing the same thing day after > day I get into the if it aint broke dont fix it mode! Then a new > application/need comes along and the cycle starts over again! > > david >
Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than once every few months or so. > > > > -- Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
