Automating your MacPorts upgrades

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 16, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 16, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Mark Brethen wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> 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.

I would caution people against doing that on a machine where one cares about availability.

Personally, I run a script that notifies me when upgrades are available (port sync/selfupdate and port outdated) - and then I can test/apply updates (hopefully without breaking my setup).

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