Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:42:59 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap and portupgrade Message-ID: <494A5363.7090501@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081218124318.09f16d42@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812181105160.2794@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <20081218124318.09f16d42@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET) > Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> wrote: > > >> ( decompress to /usr/ports ) >> # portsnap extract >> >> ( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has >> a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. ) > > You need the extract so that the tree is exactly matched to the > snapshot and the correct metadata is created, it's installing the > tree from disk that's not needed. > >> In root /etc/crontab, shedule daily updates of /var/db/portsnap : >> 0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron >> >> ... >> b. For every future upgrade of gv (using portupgrade): >> b.1. ( update ports collection ) >> # portsnap update >> ... >> b.5. do the port upgrade >> # portupgrade -R gv >> >> b.6. install the updated version of ghostview >> # cd /usr/ports/print/gv >> # make install clean > > You don't need the last step, that's what portupgrade does. > > For the most part it's better to bring all you ports up-to date if you > can, rather than doing it piecemeal. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Also use portaudit to check for security issues with installed ports. # portaudit -Fda (fecth the updated audit database and check your ports against it)
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