Automating your MacPorts upgrades

[Marius Schamschula]

On Aug 16, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Mark Brethen <mark.brethen at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 16, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 16, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>>> Is automating your macports upgrades recommended? I checked the howtos and faq, but didn't find instructions. What is the method to set this up?
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>> I don't believe we have anything written up about that. For myself, I like to be in control of what is updated and when.
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> One suggestion I found is to create the script '/etc/daily.local' (could also be weekly or monthly) that runs selfupdate followed by upgrade outdated and sends the output to a log file. I haven't tried it and don't know what issues you might run into.
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> Mark
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On one of my machines I run such a script via launchd:

echo "Start $(date)"
/opt/local/bin/port sync
/opt/local/bin/port upgrade outdated
echo "Finish $(date)"

launchd pipes the output to log files so I can inspect the nightly runs from the Console.

However, I still do port selfupdate manually…

Marius
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