On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:55:56PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new
> > ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one
> > of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps,
> > there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day.
>
> Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively
> making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only
> release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most
> have updates available much less often than that.
>
> > E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3.
>
> Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency
> changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless
> the program version itself changes.
>
Mm-k. I'm guessing that gettext was a good example. That was
one thing tht urged me on with being such a fanatic about keeping
_everything_ current. Over the years of doing mostly OS
version upgrades I got lazy. Things are really ok now... There
really are some bad jerks out there, but I'm locked down preet
tight. (Maybe it's time to relax a wee bit:)
> > I used to run
> > port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently,
> > upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take
> > > 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus
> > this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites):
> > have a flag, say 'u' for "urgent" when *foo*" goes from
> > foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical
> > fix.
>
> There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until
> you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want
> to update something being actively used to a specific known version
> that you need.
Good point.
gary
>
> > I Would've loved to have joined into the Coding ``love-in''
> > this coming summer, but my shoulder said, "ARE YOU AN IDIOT!"
> > so not now. Besides, other tasks await.
> >
> > Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play.
> >
> > gary
> >
> > ....Still trying to learn French :-)
>
> "Donnez-moi tout mais le temps..." -- Napoleon
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>
>
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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