port management practices

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

christopher wrote:
> Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of
> keeping them up-to-date?
>
> I know about csup, portupgrade, etc., and I think
> they are great, but if you only have one app that you
> want to upgrade because it was buggy at a previous
> time, then it doesn't seem like a practical undertaking
> when you consider all of the other apps involved and
> the build times for things such as openoffice and kde.
> (Though I don't use the latter, I do know it's a long
> process.)
>
> So, do you simply fetch the ports skeleton manually and
> take it from there? This has been my approach and it
> works fine, but I was just curious if there are other
> ways people are using.
>
> If you want a specific example, an openoffice 2.3
> snapshot that was out there right around the new year
> there was a glib error that was causing it to hang in a
> loop. A patch was created and I think it has now been
> submitted. So of course since all of my other software
> is running fine, I don't need/want to deal with getting
> it all updated.
>
> Thanks for any input. ~ Chris
>
>   
A very simple solution is use csup to update your ports tree (I know 
this is time consuming but it is the only safe way) and then use 
portupgrade on per package basis (portupgrade cat/port .. ex portupgrade 
www/firefox) that will rebuild any dependand ports also vs. just using 
fetch and/or make deinstall distclean install