From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 07:56:04 2007 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 BC7D716A419 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:56:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from surdemir@yahoo.com) Received: from n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com (n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.237.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C35913C457 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:56:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from surdemir@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.237.90] by n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2007 07:42:12 -0000 Received: from [66.196.101.132] by t6.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2007 07:42:12 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rrr3.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2007 07:42:12 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 293094.49396.bm@rrr3.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 31918 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Sep 2007 07:42:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=XpREQEoXKPLGJfHNBcx/tmJF80iFPp6DJk4wwkqRj3pTWUti85md3xPwsXZb96MhHNgCenpvyMM6t3mtHO9sG5ziEeHfpsgraz11KhO10V64Tn0YiYDPeK36dhrycFnUI/9N6jKlubIasHGIvDS1n8La9pP1bAlNM7/LDaXo+iw=; X-YMail-OSG: cWozNoYVM1kolDV3GGZu4BOj_fxn5gL.L03WqzS3tIVn.4MTbYEyRXWO5QwGjL51Wsb_eg1.gbnjwcMIXjPc87KLcZVK3MmFwJeYxQid7WnL2D2_7k.frHY- Received: from [85.99.33.145] by web45208.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:42:09 PDT Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:42:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Sur Demir To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <9845.30022.qm@web45208.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Subject: sysinstall, packages, ports q.s 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: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:56:04 -0000 { this is my second attempt to post, first one over Gmane did not appear in list. Sorry if you get this twice. } Hi, I'm a bit new to FreeBSD, and have few questions challenging my Gentoo Linux mindset: 1. I performed a Minimal 6.2 installation (it boots OK). Then I selected Post installation tasks -> Distributions. There I see "base (required)", it appears unselected. Does this install anything more than what Minimal install did at the first place? 2. I see pkg_add, pkg_delete, pkg_info but no pkg_update. How am I supposed to keep my system up to date, unless I revert to ports? 3. Minimal install provides a number of commands by default like pkg_*, portsnap, gcc, ls, vi, etc but pkg_info does not list any of their packages, which means they're not managed under /var/db/pkg. Then, how am I supposed to upgrade them without ending up with multiple versions? 4. I want to avoid the -CURRENT branch and want to stay with -STABLE branch for now. The page http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html says: "The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches." This not clear to me: If I start using ports, am I on -STABLE or not? 5. make.conf is blank by default. Does CPU_TYPE default to i386 in this case? I hope I'm not too confused and sound silly. TIA. ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/