Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:31:02 -0500 From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Standard way of updating 6.x ? Message-ID: <bdf25fde0601310831qfda3239j8da895b74868e12@mail.gmail.com>
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Is there a suggested method for updating a newly installed FreeBSD 6.0system? I have found several websites with similar but differing methods, often somehow specific to the author's configuration. What I usually do first is install from a CD and get a bare-bones system bootable. What I would like to do after that is update the kernel, system programs, user programs, and packages. I usually end up using cvsup, portsnap, and portupgrade with varying levels of success. What I would really like is a fool-proof method that works everytime, if there is such a thing. For example, rebuilding things at the lowest layer first, and working my way up. I was following a websites tutorial yesterday, and was confronted with a "stale imagemagic dependency", where I chose to "force" an override. I didn't know if I was doing some wrong or not, and it seemed to work, but I would rather not have to force anything, if possible. Previously I had posted the steps I was using, and several people made annotations which I was able to integrate, but I was mostly curious if ther= e wasn't some standard way. I am trying to use portsnap, since it seems much faster than cvsup, but the handbook doesn't seem to have portsnap integrate= d in to the rebuild steps yet (it is in the appendix I think). There seems to be updates steps for 4.x and 5.x, but not yet 6.x, or maybe = I just have found them yet. There seems to be a lot of ways to update your system right now.
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