Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:38:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Singleton <gsinglet1@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Staying up to date - easy way? Message-ID: <20030702233852.44521.qmail@web40607.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi everbody, I'm new to FreeBSD and coming back after a long time away from UNIX like OSs in the first place. I decided to try out FreeBSD because it seems to be a better controlled product than most of the Linux stuff out there and what I'd really want FreeBSD for is servers anyway, no X or anything like that. Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge thing the first time you do it and get smaller / faster after that or am I just completely missing something else. Could I make a refuse file and refuse everything except what I need? Am I clueless? I always used Debian's apt-get update / upgrade stuff before and it was a really simple process. I don't doubt that FreeBSD is very powerful but I like to be up to date with patches and stuff but don't want to rebuild everything every time. Thanks in advance for advising this newbie and I hope I didn't say anything offensive, overall I'm falling in love with FreeBSD but this one issue bothers me. G. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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