Re: Standard way of updating 6.x ?

Garrett Cooper <youshi10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:45:23 -0800

On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Xn Nooby wrote:
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 there

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  
integrated

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.

	Actually I think you're on the right track as to what method needs  
to be done to update your system.
cvsup: Use for updating the ports tree and your system's source  
(base, docs, info, manpages, contrib, etc stuff available in  
sysinstall).

portupgrade: Use for updating your actual ports programs.
	There may be a more elegant solution though and I would be more than  
happy to hear it too :).

-Garrett

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