Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:24:10 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports Message-ID: <4B7064DA.9070300@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <4B70584F.6050604@black-earth.co.uk> References: <4B704C2C.2020103@tundraware.com> <4B70584F.6050604@black-earth.co.uk>
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On 2/8/2010 12:30 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: >> >> - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world >> and kernels. > > This implies you're running one of the -STABLE branches, rather than > -RELEASE: updates to -RELEASE happen much less frequently than weekly... > >> - Regularly (several times a week), do a 'portupgrade -arR' >> >> - Somewhat frequently do a 'pkgdb -F' >> >> IOW, I keep the OS, kernels, and ports fairly up-to-date. > > Yep. It's good to do that, although your methodology would be pretty > hard to cope with on any more than a few machines. Yup, 'tis -stable. And, no, I wouldn't do a farm of machines this way. For that, I wrote/use this: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/ Matthew & Lowell - thanks for taking the time ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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