Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:41:58 -0600 From: "Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... Message-ID: <c88cc5730812012241i6ea540uc8a56f40c3d8237e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get updated with portsnap, but that doesn't update neither the intalled ports, nor the installed packages. To upgrade the installed ports, portmanager or portmaster or portupgrade can be used... However only portupgrade can be used to upgrade packages, right? Now, can something like "portupgrade -a -PP" to upgrade all packages without building a thing (might be that some don't get updated due to the lack of binary package yet, and in such case would dependencies be managed right)? More into how things work, as ports and pacakages are not part of the base systems, are they somehow associated to a particular release (most probably not)? So that pretty much no matter the release, if packages and ports are kept up to date, they might be the same for all releases? I'm asking these questions since I'm evaluating moving to BSD, but I want to avoid compiling as much as possible since my box is 800MHz piii celeron with just 32KB of cache and 512MB of ram, and for it source based distributions have proven to be too much to handle, so my intention would be to live with binary packages and updates/upgrades only... Also if remaining under -STABLE, is all this possible? Kind of understood that openoffice.org can't be installed with "pkg_add -r", so most probably if living under -STABLE automatic updates for openoffice.org won't show up... So this kinds of answers one previous question about the packages been independent from the base system release, it looks like they aren't... Thanks, -- Javier
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