Can selfupdate be done incrementally

Tim Johnson tim at akwebsoft.com
Fri Apr 6 17:01:35 PDT 2012


* Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com> [120406 13:06]:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> FWIW, my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard temperatures get to around 80
> degrees Centigrade when upgrading/installing with no ill effects.
  Oh! Good to hear that is 180+ F and about what I was showing 
> I also try to run selfupdate daily (one of my other machines is running
> Debian & a cron job kicks around 07:45 each morning to run apt-get
> update so, if I'm awake, I do Mac Ports too) so the number of ports is
> minimal on an upgrade & if I get a long list of ports, I split them into
> batches. Not necessary really but I like to keep the machine active on
> other fronts while they're upgrading as much as possible.
  :) And you are saying "update frequently" - which is a good plan
  that I have neglected until now.
  thank you
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Tim 
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