On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:39:02AM +0000, Yann Golanski wrote: > Would people be kind enough to have a look at the following script and > tell me what horrors/faux pas/stupid things I have done? > > The script is an almost automated way to upgrade all your ports to the > latest version.
Without looking further I'd say this is a bad idea because sometimes an upgrade to a port radically changes its functionality or does something else inconvenient. For example, upgrading databases/mysql*-server will shut down a running mysql server. You need to be manually reading /usr/ports/UPDATING before each update. What I tend to do is automate the cvsup and then email a report of what could be upgraded. The actual upgrades are done semi-automatically with a portupgrade -arR after checking it isn't going to do anything untoward.
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