Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:43:08 -0600 From: "Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... Message-ID: <c88cc5730812012243j7a26d58bkec5cdb5fef799907@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c88cc5730812012241i6ea540uc8a56f40c3d8237e@mail.gmail.com> References: <c88cc5730812012241i6ea540uc8a56f40c3d8237e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/2/08, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and > 26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system > updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get > updated with portsnap, but that doesn't update neither the intalled > ports, nor the installed packages. To upgrade the installed ports, > portmanager or portmaster or portupgrade can be used... However only > portupgrade can be used to upgrade packages, right? > > Now, can something like "portupgrade -a -PP" to upgrade all packages > without building a thing (might be that some don't get updated due to > the lack of binary package yet, and in such case would dependencies be > managed right)? > > More into how things work, as ports and pacakages are not part of the > base systems, are they somehow associated to a particular release > (most probably not)? So that pretty much no matter the release, if > packages and ports are kept up to date, they might be the same for all > releases? > > I'm asking these questions since I'm evaluating moving to BSD, but I > want to avoid compiling as much as possible since my box is 800MHz > piii celeron with just 32KB of cache and 512MB of ram, and for it > source based distributions have proven to be too much to handle, so my > intention would be to live with binary packages and updates/upgrades > only... > > Also if remaining under -STABLE, is all this possible? Kind of > understood that openoffice.org can't be installed with "pkg_add -r", > so most probably if living under -STABLE automatic updates for > openoffice.org won't show up... So this kinds of answers one previous > question about the packages been independent from the base system > release, it looks like they aren't... > > Thanks, > > -- > Javier > I forgot to ask to CC me, since I'm not part of the list yet... Thanks, -- Javier
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