Am 23.10.2011 um 08:47 schrieb Chris Rees:

> Worst of all, you're running portupgrade from cron without reading UPDATING,
> which is just asking for trouble.
What specifically is your concern here?

I've been running portupgrade from cron for six years on a multitude of systems 
with great success.  Yes, occasionally, things break, and reading UPDATING 
becomes a necessity, but I much prefer the nightly upgrade to running 
portupgrade by hand less frequently, especially when you have to do it on 20 or 
more machines.

Note that most of these boxes have very limited SLAs, and dealing with the 
occasional breakage is much less work than regular manual maintainance.

I decided to do this after I got bitten one too many times trying to upgrade 
ports after three to four months, and getting stuck in all kinds of bad 
dependencies.  Daily upgrades usually means that I catch every single update by 
itself, so complex interdependencies are exactly what the committer tested.


Stefan

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Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de>   Fon +49 151 14070811



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