On 2025-08-20 at 03:09:27 UTC-0400 (Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:09:27 +0200)
Christoph Kukulies via macports-users <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Nearly everytime when I'm using macports I'm asked to do a port
selfupdate. To avoid this, I'd like to register a cron job that does
the selfupdate - maybe once a week or
if it doesn't cost much, every day?.
Has anyone done so? It should run from root, shouldn't it?
I do 'port sync ; port outdated' daily on my Macs in a root cron job
*and have assured that mail from cron get delivered to me* so that I see
when I have significant updates available. Doing 'port selfupdate' would
be minimally more load on the MacPorts infrastructure than a sync, and I
would think that a bigger concern would be load on your machine on the
rare occasions when MacPorts itself has been updated.
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