Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:26:20 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Portupgrade questions Message-ID: <003001c36698$88911ee0$04fea8c0@moe>
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Hi, Now that I am ready to start installing applications, I have read *some* of the documentation in man portupgrade and some articles on the web. First, I did: # tar -czvf dbpkg.tgz /var/db/pkg Then: #pkgdb -F It found cvsupit was broken with no fix for 3 months, I deleted it and all it's dependencies. Then: # portversion And upgraded all those that needed it. Then I installed mc, popa3d, and lynx. # Portinstall mc # Portinstall popa3d # Portinstall lynx When I went to install bash2, it couldn't find it, so I installed it the old way from the port. Then: # portinstall samba (not smaba-devel) It went interactive and prompted me for options, I selected with syslog support. I don't really know what I'm doing here, I've never had to configure options in samba before: rpm -ivh samba*.rpm Good so far? Now when I reboot, I see messages about not being able to connect to the cups server. What's goin' on there? Now on to staying up2date... I've put a file in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily to cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile I've created the file /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports-all/refuse and put ports/INDEX in it. That should give me a fresh update every night with the exception of the INDEX. I'm going to subscribe to freebsd-announce, I'm going to keep running cvsup at intervals, and look for modifications to the ports I've installed. When something needs updating I can do it individually or: # cd /usr/ports # make index ( -or- portsdb -uU) # portupgrade -Nia Whew! Is there anything else I should do or be aware of? Thanks, Charles
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