From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 19:24:04 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 5A2601065670 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:24:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108028FC1A for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o18JNtFt069454 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:23:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4B7064DA.9070300@tundraware.com> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:24:10 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <4B704C2C.2020103@tundraware.com> <4B70584F.6050604@black-earth.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B70584F.6050604@black-earth.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:23:56 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: o18JNtFt069454 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading 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: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:24:04 -0000 On 2/8/2010 12:30 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: >> >> - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world >> and kernels. > > This implies you're running one of the -STABLE branches, rather than > -RELEASE: updates to -RELEASE happen much less frequently than weekly... > >> - Regularly (several times a week), do a 'portupgrade -arR' >> >> - Somewhat frequently do a 'pkgdb -F' >> >> IOW, I keep the OS, kernels, and ports fairly up-to-date. > > Yep. It's good to do that, although your methodology would be pretty > hard to cope with on any more than a few machines. Yup, 'tis -stable. And, no, I wouldn't do a farm of machines this way. For that, I wrote/use this: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/ Matthew & Lowell - thanks for taking the time ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/