Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:34:45 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: duanewinner@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? Message-ID: <40066CC5.8010302@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <1074139882.5205.28.camel@closetotheedge> References: <1074139882.5205.28.camel@closetotheedge>
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Duane Winner wrote: > Hello all again, > > I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes > and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good > habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my > colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD. > > I now understand how to use cvsup to keep my src and ports tree current. > I know how to use pkg_add -r to install new sotware, or go into > /usr/ports/whatever to make install. I know how to do portupgrade to > upgrade my installed ports, how to pkg_version -v to see what's out of > date with my tree, and how to cronjob cvsup to keep my trees current. (I > still need to play more with make world and whatnot) > > But what do you all out there in BSD land do to stay current as a > practice? I'm looking at this on two fronts: FreeBSD on our laptops > (There will be at least 3 of us with T23's, and I also plan on migrating > most, if not all of my servers from Linux to FreeBSD). If you have the resources, you should consider using a dedicated machine for compiling. With ~10 laptops, a bunch of workstations and about 20-25 servers running FreeBSD we use 2 dedicated machines that does nothing but download sources and compiles them. One is tracking 4.x-STABLE and the other 5.x-RELEASE. Anyone can nfs mount choosen directories from these machines and install the pre-compiled software. It works extremely well, once the users have learned the correct process. -- R
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