From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 5 19:32:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382D237B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (212-86.dsl.connexus.net.au [203.17.212.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236E543E9C for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from [203.29.62.130] (helo=ish.com.au) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtp (Exim 6.66 #1) id 18K9EH-0007S7-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:32:41 +1100 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:32:40 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: update strategies From: Aristedes Maniatis To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <5FCDFD3A-08CB-11D7-86ED-003065A9024A@ish.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) X-Scanner: exiscan *18K9EH-0007S7-00*PG9RgAsEdpM* on Astaro Security Linux Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm new here, and I've been lurking to look for answers. You seem like a friendly bunch, so I'll ask my question. It appears that there are two strategies for updating FreeBSD systems: * cvsup the latest STABLE release on a regular basis * get the CD release (4.6, 4.7, etc) snapshots periodically and update from that either with binaries or compiled from source I am curious about what most people do. For a server where stability is important, I obviously don't want to buildworld once a week, but it is also important to keep on top of bug reports and security holes. I am already using cvsup with the ports tree and it works really nicely, giving me the choice of what to update and when. Am I right in saying that the base FreeBSD install can work the same way? I guess what makes more more confused is figuring out what is part of "FreeBSD" and what is part of the ports. Some things seem to be both: eg. perl and bind. Is there a map somewhere that sets this out clearly? Does everything which is a port get installed in /usr/local? I'm having some problems getting the kernel to compile (errors in "/usr/src/sys/modules/linux") and I suspect that the problem may be due to this lack of understanding about which source trees live where. Thanks for any help Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish group pty ltd 7 Darghan St Glebe 2037 Australia phone +61 2 9660 1400 fax +61 2 9660 7400 http www.ish.com.au | email info@ish.com.au PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message