From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 02:35:10 2004 Return-Path: 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 1CC0816A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:35:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBFF43D66 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0FAYuCT056900; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:35:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <40066CC5.8010302@401.cx> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:34:45 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: duanewinner@att.net References: <1074139882.5205.28.camel@closetotheedge> In-Reply-To: <1074139882.5205.28.camel@closetotheedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:35:10 -0000 Duane Winner wrote: > Hello all again, > > I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes > and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good > habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my > colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD. > > I now understand how to use cvsup to keep my src and ports tree current. > I know how to use pkg_add -r to install new sotware, or go into > /usr/ports/whatever to make install. I know how to do portupgrade to > upgrade my installed ports, how to pkg_version -v to see what's out of > date with my tree, and how to cronjob cvsup to keep my trees current. (I > still need to play more with make world and whatnot) > > But what do you all out there in BSD land do to stay current as a > practice? I'm looking at this on two fronts: FreeBSD on our laptops > (There will be at least 3 of us with T23's, and I also plan on migrating > most, if not all of my servers from Linux to FreeBSD). If you have the resources, you should consider using a dedicated machine for compiling. With ~10 laptops, a bunch of workstations and about 20-25 servers running FreeBSD we use 2 dedicated machines that does nothing but download sources and compiles them. One is tracking 4.x-STABLE and the other 5.x-RELEASE. Anyone can nfs mount choosen directories from these machines and install the pre-compiled software. It works extremely well, once the users have learned the correct process. -- R