Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Polytropon on Tuesday, 27 July 2010: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:16:15 +0200, claudiu vasadi > wrote: > > Finally, when I want to test out new features, both in OS and > applications, I usually go with "bleeding edge". I'm often > surprised to see how well things do work. > That's my experi

Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Polytropon wrote: For servers, especially where I run critical apps, I follow the bugs and announce lists (of the installed programs) to decide if an update is required due to security reasons, then I update. I find the VuXML FreeBSD RSS feed to be quite handy for

Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:16:15 +0200, claudiu vasadi wrote: > Hello fellas, > > I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon > as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the "if it > works, don't touch it" strategy ? I think you will get similar a

Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread b. f.
>I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon >as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the "if it >works, don't touch it" strategy ? > There is no one strategy that pleases everyone. You'll have to consider the time required to perform updates

Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread Paul Macdonald
I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the "if it works, don't touch it" strategy ? I'm guessing "portupgrade" is your preferred way of doing this hence, do you also choose -P or -PP ? I update

apps update from ports

2010-07-26 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the "if it works, don't touch it" strategy ? I'm guessing "portupgrade" is your preferred way of doing this hence, do you also choose -P or -PP ?