From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 0:35:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7102837B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from stargate.northwindcom.net (110-47-237-24.gci.net [24.237.47.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9248143E4A for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@northwindcom.net) Received: from nwcadmin (115-44-237-24.gci.net [24.237.44.115]) by stargate.northwindcom.net (Postfix) with SMTP id F2441B6; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:35:16 -0900 (AKST) Message-ID: <001201c2ca96$0e42a8f0$732ced18@nwcadmin> From: "Beech Rintoul" To: "sweetleaf" , References: <3E3CCF17.9040105@myrealbox.com> Subject: Re: how to update release with just security patches Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:35:32 -0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Start with reading this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html cvsup-without-gui is in the ports and is very easy to use. Also take a look at the portupgrade port, It does a very good job of upgrading your ports without much hassle. Cheers, Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Administrator - akbeech@northwindcom.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99518-1841 No More Spam! http://www.knockmail.com/default.asp?AID=B0R00073 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "sweetleaf" To: Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 10:56 PM Subject: how to update release with just security patches > I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 and need some guidance ,examples, on > tracking the 4.7 stable release. This is a production server so i just > want to find out how to get it up2date with security patches etc... for > the stable 4.7 release. The cvs commands in the faq are confusing so i > would appreciate some help on getting only the updates needed via..cvs > and then applying them. > > Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message