From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 18:53:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F8037B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:53:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelstar (dialup-63.209.84.31.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [63.209.84.31]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA18965 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:52:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000a01c088d5$8a1ad600$1f54d13f@angelstar> From: "jdls" To: Subject: a quick question Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:53:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C08892.7025C4A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C08892.7025C4A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I would like to know if freebsd supports a feature of debian like = "apt-get dist-uprade" wherein the libs,packages, etc are upraded = automatically and via the net. In debian, you can always have the latest = release just by doing this so you won't have to be stuck with an older = version and thus, save money,time, etc in the "upgrade". I have waded in = some of the freeBSD documentation and I came across "uprading via the = CVS repository"...hmmm... ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C08892.7025C4A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello,

I would like to know if freebsd = supports a=20 feature of debian like "apt-get dist-uprade" wherein the libs,packages, = etc are=20 upraded automatically and via the net. In debian, you can always have = the latest=20 release just by doing this so you won't have to be stuck with an older = version=20 and thus, save money,time, etc in the "upgrade". I have waded in some of = the=20 freeBSD documentation and I came across "uprading via the CVS=20 repository"...hmmm...

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