Re: port management practices


Ravna wrote:
> It's my philosophy, that a little each day, is better than lots, once 
> in a while.
> Cron updates my ports tree every night and does a "portupgrade -a"  
> after that.
> The output is saved to a file, so I can deal with problems.
> I do a "buildworld/buildkernel" every week, if there are changes in 
> the source.
> Nothing  has ever been older than a few days.
> I don't see why my box should be bored while I'm asleep.
> It's always on, anyway.
>
What I am wondering re the above is how to cope with the ports that 
allow you to select options, I wouldn't cron this for that reason 
alone.  I could see cronning the retrieval, but not the actual 
portupgrade. 

Brian

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