Re: Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
My upgrades usually follow chromium pkg upgrades. In fact, I have a script on my phone that greps the chromium pkg version. I test on my own laptop first.

Re: Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread j3s
On Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 6:23 PM PST, Paco Esteban wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, j3s wrote: > > > On Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM PST, Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: > > > But, this got me thinking (I am better with schedules): What is a > > > reasonable amount of time between updates of -current? > > >

Re: Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread Paco Esteban
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, j3s wrote: > On Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM PST, Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: > > But, this got me thinking (I am better with schedules): What is a > > reasonable amount of time between updates of -current? > > > Just looking for opinions. > > My opinion is at least twice a m

Re: ports: pkg_add as root

2020-03-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-03-21, putridsou...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm have never tried the ports system before. > I have read through the faq and the man pages, > but I get stuck at building dependencies. > I follow through the fetch,checksum steps and then > for 'make prepare' as local user, > I'm greeted with

Re: Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-03-21, Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: > Hello > I have been following -current since (about) 5.6. > At first, I was pretty good. Probably no more than about 1 month between > updates. > But, life gets in the way... > Recently, I had a prolonged (probably >4-6 month) period where I did not >

Re: Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread j3s
On Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM PST, Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: > But, this got me thinking (I am better with schedules): What is a > reasonable amount of time between updates of -current? > Just looking for opinions. My opinion is at least twice a month if you're following -current. With that s

Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread Theodore Wynnychenko
Hello I have been following -current since (about) 5.6. At first, I was pretty good. Probably no more than about 1 month between updates. But, life gets in the way... Recently, I had a prolonged (probably >4-6 month) period where I did not update, although I have recovered. Since then, I have been

Re: ports: pkg_add as root

2020-03-21 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:26:18PM +0530, putridsou...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm have never tried the ports system before. > I have read through the faq and the man pages, > but I get stuck at building dependencies. > I follow through the fetch,checksum steps and then > for 'make prepare' as local

ports: pkg_add as root

2020-03-21 Thread putridsoul66
I'm have never tried the ports system before. I have read through the faq and the man pages, but I get stuck at building dependencies. I follow through the fetch,checksum steps and then for 'make prepare' as local user, I'm greeted with following message. This is for the 'rsnapshot' package =