From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 15:18: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCD837B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772DE43E81 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g94MHvMH064355; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:17:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:17:57 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kevin Stevens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thingie #1 - non-package updates Message-ID: <20021004221756.GE33584@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021004145859.P79505-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021004145859.P79505-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 04), Kevin Stevens said: > I generally use port-upgrade to update installed packages, and > -upgrade STABLE releases manually. However, this leaves a gap when > software that is installed as part of the base system, like bind, has > upgrade releases that occur more frequently than the -STABLE > releases. > > What's the common resolution to this situation? I'm concerned about > potential compatibility issues if I remove/ignore the -STABLE version > by using rc.conf to point at a port/package version. It works for me. named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named" named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf" I used to do the same with ntpd, before 4.1.0 was imported. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message