Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:45:23 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard way of updating 6.x ? Message-ID: <93676E29-4F0E-40DC-904C-225A859D0B78@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <bdf25fde0601310831qfda3239j8da895b74868e12@mail.gmail.com> References: <bdf25fde0601310831qfda3239j8da895b74868e12@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: > Is there a suggested method for updating a newly installed FreeBSD > 6.0system? I have found several websites with similar but differing > methods, > often somehow specific to the author's configuration. What I > usually do > first is install from a CD and get a bare-bones system bootable. > What I > would like to do after that is update the kernel, system programs, > user > programs, and packages. I usually end up using cvsup, portsnap, and > portupgrade with varying levels of success. > > What I would really like is a fool-proof method that works > everytime, if > there is such a thing. For example, rebuilding things at the > lowest layer > first, and working my way up. I was following a websites tutorial > yesterday, and was confronted with a "stale imagemagic dependency", > where I > chose to "force" an override. I didn't know if I was doing some > wrong or > not, and it seemed to work, but I would rather not have to force > anything, > if possible. > > Previously I had posted the steps I was using, and several people made > annotations which I was able to integrate, but I was mostly curious > if there > wasn't some standard way. I am trying to use portsnap, since it > seems much > faster than cvsup, but the handbook doesn't seem to have portsnap > integrated > in to the rebuild steps yet (it is in the appendix I think). > > There seems to be updates steps for 4.x and 5.x, but not yet 6.x, > or maybe I > just have found them yet. There seems to be a lot of ways to > update your > system right now. Actually I think you're on the right track as to what method needs to be done to update your system. cvsup: Use for updating the ports tree and your system's source (base, docs, info, manpages, contrib, etc stuff available in sysinstall). portupgrade: Use for updating your actual ports programs. There may be a more elegant solution though and I would be more than happy to hear it too :). -Garrett
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