From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 16:01:09 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 D8043106564A for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:01:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ptkrisada@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A068FC08 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so6092630fxm.3 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:01:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent:x-operating-system; bh=6LjefnkhoOcdiLd+dHr8LhAWoX/CPg7e5cuOhsSTMxU=; b=rUs6LXN3Vz/Xw7i5dpitDSJpm72jwywYez5oVZVu39iM7AZdwDq5yIkhAiPkNiGirk 48p1F//MARScA0OUeIqcWVvA+rIiAFZoI52VgZjhcg1ilRm+OhbtVeLLOtnKMICY4T/k dUvHx9zOXJXkTzSQ4LLJVhFc0McWMsYmJJOC4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:user-agent:x-operating-system; b=MwxA/6Vfg4zTAeK93CvjRjnZbYKfDDlYTbww4OqKi0LAzA7dD5SBV0YjtP5PVz+l/0 IleL0fs4xAU1WvRRT/VC5R8pyvq76ZFmQLooHFtDugRQfG0NcvTh3AdjDBlyX6zdwxt4 vk62/mqS1lsn8P3uSd1NT8QclZa5b3Kscu+rU= Received: by 10.223.62.83 with SMTP id w19mr6647529fah.22.1268150468299; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:01:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmail.com (125.27.78.70.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net [125.27.78.70]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm11228205fkt.47.2010.03.09.08.01.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:01:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:02:46 +0700 From: Pongthep Kulkrisada To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100309160246.GA1190@gmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/8.0-RELEASE-p2 (i386) Subject: Updating the system and ports 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: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:01:09 -0000 Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed Give up, no remaining mirrors. (I didn't run script(1), I hard typed from my memory.) I tried many times, the results were always the same. I don't know what happen. So I switch to update from source. REL_ENG_8_0 is specified in stable-supfile. After csup and buildworld/kernel. Now I am running 8.0-RELEASE-p2. But I am expecting 8.0-STABLE-p2. I don't understand. The handbook did not say anything about the capitalized RELEASE. At least I did not find it. I only notice that I always get RELEASE when freshly install from CDs. But when build from sources sometimes I get RELEASE. And sometimes I get STABLE. 1. What is the difference between RELEASE and STABLE? 2. After buildworld/kernel finished, I tried freebsd-upgrade again. Now it works. There are still 20 files to fetch and install. Only 8 hours between csup all sources and freebsd-upgrade. Is it normal to have such 20 outstanding files during short period? 3. freebsd-upgrade did not request for mergemaster(8). How can we ensure that things in /etc go well? 4. After this step, I would probably run portmaster. sleepy now :-( I want to know how often you normally update the ``system'' and ``ports''? If both are normally done EVERYDAY, freebsd-update is relatively fast. But portmaster is somewhat slow to build all ports from sources. One may have hundreds ports, if not thousands. Please give me some hints, what are you normally do? Thanks, Pongthep