From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 09:16:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F211065672 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net (relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607BD8FC08 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:16:30 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah0FAK/9n0zUnw4T/2dsb2JhbACUMY4AccUmhUQE Received: from outmx04.plus.net ([212.159.14.19]) by relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2010 10:16:28 +0100 Received: from helix.plus.com ([84.92.153.232] helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by outmx04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1P09oy-0003CV-AP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:16:28 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P09ox-0000Yq-0D for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:16:27 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:16:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100926123019.GA41450@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <4C9F3BBA.2060809@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4ca03df2.lQjjNnRah4BJhw4Y%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4ca03df2.lQjjNnRah4BJhw4Y%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201009271016.26902.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Free BSD 8.1 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: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:16:31 -0000 On Monday 27 September 2010, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > I've recently started on a new system, and am planning to install > 8.1-RELEASE, including the corresponding ports tree; then install > what ports I can from packages and also fetch the corresponding > distfiles; and finally build -- from release-corresponding ports -- > any that aren't available as packages or where I want non-default > OPTION settings. =A0That approach should avoid most nasty surprises > while getting things set up and working. =A0_After_ everything is > installed and configured properly will be plenty soon enough to > consider whether any ports need to be updated -- and the already- > installed-and-working package collection will provide a fallback > in case of trouble trying to build any updated versions. The problem is if/when you need to update a port as a result of a=20 security advisory. If your ports tree is very much out of date then=20 it's likely that updating that one port will require a number of=20 dependencies to be updated as well, sometimes all the ports depending=20 on one or more of the updated dependencies need to be updated as well=20 and the resultant bag of worms can take quite a lot of sorting out.=20 The "little and often" approach of keeping the ports tree up to date=20 could be less traumatic. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke