From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 00:44:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 11F5C16A4DD for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 00:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aaron.bliss@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6682043D45 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 00:44:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron.bliss@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so104210nfc for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:44:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=UwkpEbA4GjA0QXkBAXkJEye67/ory6HKu67AxSb7tWvVWkkHsvxdk2o5gjh7eAlqYoZHqhAMNH3XX2S70J9N0OBqC2vo9QVnQr+rSu538spN15dxbbP85GJMffZXPLgPoI5S4EGC84JTpVzWJYLU0yk0h/imbp3xhxUxY9SMUzI= Received: by 10.48.48.15 with SMTP id v15mr150242nfv; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.241.20 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20a8c0f30609051744r71f9f47ak831a418cb063f836@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:44:48 -0400 From: "Aaron Bliss" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: easy patch management tools 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, 06 Sep 2006 00:44:50 -0000 Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please forgive the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for many years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I almost never use gui's for administration); I was wondering if there are any packagement tools for freebsd/pcbsd that offer simular functionality to up2date or yum; I take care of installing and updating complete rpm based systems using yum, and have not found a tool simular to yum for freebds (I'm also trying to stay away from pbi's, since they are specific to pcbsd); I've used the pkg_add, pkg_delete, portupgrade tools, but am just looking for an easy way to ensure my entire bsd box is updated; Also, as I understand it, bsd makes use of ports, by using tools such as cvsup, however I have never had much success compiling my own software, as such much prefer to use binary packages, which I understand that the freebsd authors provide; for example, if I wanted to install pine, I would much rather install it by running pkg_add -r pine ; I'm just looking for a simple way to update currently installed binaries, simular to installing new binaries with pkg_add ; thanks very much for your help with this. Aaron