From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 21:49:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49B95420 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 21:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com (mail-pa0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23E79760 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 21:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id kl14so4047011pab.32 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:49:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=uFrUhoHPas4DS+duAR6wrGUOiZXTQWPNUq7ipbLhNYo=; b=pdVi/2Ld1nIKK/OZ7nW512woIydWzS9aL4PK9QDNreZAcJkATgyh31wZj2ZKDFSYVN kPFB3Z3j2FcwbPnUnlddnONYczuvyEJbBmmvzMI6N6YnEDKCGeASTM/YpkqDQAkP9bPw 1IXslvi3VOHYYeBm61QServ/iRjphCo1MSSGqdmNPil5k2R/ovtzITIFzzP2/XteRuL3 jGGT+2XpfI4YxGUAjb2UArESMVJWMejXgLjbqGTBHbuNzyxhGmY0b0m5GLJy8qingH64 MfIYjrwLWVJmJucQizsOnKf2WzzwXqZB5nDkjPAsxGRPZUlHtS4/UAc+lgH7vjNp8AUt fHlg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.122.36 with SMTP id lp4mr17470769pab.82.1396648151688; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.150.41 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:49:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <533F265D.4080605@networktest.com> References: <533F265D.4080605@networktest.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:49:11 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: yet another pkgng vs. ports management question From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: David Newman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:49:12 -0000 On 4 April 2014 17:38, David Newman wrote: > I have recently taken over sysadmin chores for a FreeBSD 9.2 system that > runs ports installed with some combination of default and non-default > options. > > I don't know which ports have non-default options set. The person who > set up the system is not available. > > For purposes of keeping the system up-to-date, which option is best: > > - just run 'pkg update && pkg upgrade' > > - just update the ports tree and run 'portmaster -aD' > > - some combination of pkg and portmaster > > - something else > I'm not aware that you can use non-default options with a pure pkg (i.e. not built from source) system. Portmaster (which I use) would seem to be the obvious choice. Assuming you aren't building www/chromium on a pentium-iii, upgrades of your installed ports from source should rarely take more than a couple of hours. Also, portmaster can use pre-built packages: see the -P (& -PP) flags. If I'm not missing anything vital, those ports with an entry in /var/db/ports/ should be the ones to look at, as the changes to any options should be stored there. The biggest thing is to not fiddle too much with stuff until you have a better idea of what needs to keep running exactly as it is, for Lo! there be dragons. -- --