what "port*" string can I crontab that will *work*?

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:48:59PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >	Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping
> >	ports current?  I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to
> >	6.2  (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade
> >	with several variants of flags/switches.  portuprade with
> >	-rpfP wound up  recycling my packages most of the time.  [?]
> >	I've starting to think that there may be no way of doing this
> >	automatically.  portmanager -b -u -l may be better:: dunno.
> 
> Trying to set up something to update ports automatically works only  
> when the changes involved do not require human intervention to adjust  
> config files, restart services after the update, and so forth.
> 
> In other words, this will work OK for a short period of time in the  
> face of minor version bumps, but as soon as a major change to one  
> port occurs which requires one to adjust or change a config file, an  
> automated update will break there.  There is no free lunch with  
> regard to managing servers...a human eventually needs to oversee the  
> process.
> 


	Rats.  :-)/2.  I started saving current ports to
	/usr/ports/packages to be able to scp the tbz files 
	around.  But at least five pkg_add's would be required,
	depending.  And five pkgdb -F's too. (*mumble*)

	thanks,


	gary
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 

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