From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 00:24:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786FE16A415 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:24:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF1D13C45D for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:24:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.10]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JBZ00K1XL3LKW50@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:23:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JBZ001QWL3KFUM1@pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:23:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JBZ008B6L3AFKQ0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:23:35 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 1148 invoked from network); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:23:32 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:23:32 +0000 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:23:32 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <45AD69B9.3020107@chapman.edu> To: Jay Chandler Message-id: <45AD6C84.60907@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <576dcbc20701161608r1c0697bawf696071acdeb7ba8@mail.gmail.com> <45AD69B9.3020107@chapman.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:24:34 -0000 Jay Chandler wrote: > lveax wrote: >> i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. >> >> where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? The FreeBSD Update client does that automatically, using DNS SRV magic. >> and how much space does it need? That depends upon how many security updates are issued. Hopefully not much space. :-) More seriously, the /var/db/freebsd-update/ directory holds the new and old versions of any files which are updated, in order to allow you to rollback security updates (not that I ever expect this to be necessary). As a wild guess, I'm going to say that this is likely to add up to about 20MB/year. > On a related note, I already have the freebsd-update port installed. > Should I uninstall it and use the one that's part of the OS, or keep > going as I've been doing? Uninstall the port. The new FreeBSD Update code in the base system is much better. Colin Percival