From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 01:09:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 2B9CC16A426 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:09:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27CC643D5D for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 63562 invoked by uid 399); 25 Feb 2006 01:09:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Feb 2006 01:09:20 -0000 Message-ID: <43FFAE40.4030303@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:09:20 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <20060224141450.sbxretdis80s4o48@webmail.1command.com> In-Reply-To: <20060224141450.sbxretdis80s4o48@webmail.1command.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FBSDS Subject: Re: Any issues? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:09:22 -0000 Chris wrote: > Greetings, I synced up both my source and ports trees 4 days ago and as I > haven't built a kernel for about 5mos. coupled with the security issues > that have developed since then. I want to (re)build both kernel and and > already installed ports on my SMP box. First off, It's important to note that with FreeBSD you should not just build and install a new kernel every N months. FreeBSD is a complete operating system, so it's important that you follow the procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING to keep your whole system up to date. As for ports, you really only need to update the ports that have newer versions in the tree. Within a major release version number (like the 6.x branch) it's hardly ever necessary to rebuild all your ports. If I may, I'd like to suggest that you take a look at ports/sysutils/portmaster, which is a script I wrote to help make managing your installed ports easier. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection