From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 07:13:44 2008 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 4AFCA106564A for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jevv.cr@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4BB8FC0A for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jevv.cr@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so1406198wag.27 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:13:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=efQK2/GF+9Po4bLWe4rxe0K7K4yZrEL+mLAH/6s5C8A=; b=gpiUovvUAmIQ1HMVNhvI3xm1YaMdOq5krRKYNwW5/D6pV437C0NTKa8NmN66Kzku6I FWnn5J9wWhdQwPDdWnrGHYmhu6UHi6iwjThHvLHKkTg8QeDmjfBQL4yQPsnfxn4BFvzy NWS8w31dxFqjGN2Sv/E8awQxYik0F0dZxN/Dw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Pd+4h4YJX+HHJAQ1uzhwdoUoTI9jY33le2Rr/0z0ZxK3s31YCoAxsl1ERlnH1G8Q/a ZWX+66lirI/mIqbAtf0pbKTWfuS+Gyuj4JWDmeX4Gqe8mIcRplixPTj5UWWV1gcobhoo 3M0ERJH4i5VjbREXN2tsV9MBAQc4O3oN1MNEA= Received: by 10.114.200.2 with SMTP id x2mr7075538waf.83.1228200188704; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.109.15 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:43:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:43:08 -0600 From: "Javier Vasquez" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... 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, 02 Dec 2008 07:13:44 -0000 On 12/2/08, Javier Vasquez wrote: > 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 > I forgot to ask to CC me, since I'm not part of the list yet... Thanks, -- Javier