Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:14:12 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way) Message-ID: <20090123011412.1b4dfa5a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <49791625.7000806@lvor.halvorsen.cc> References: <49791625.7000806@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:58:13 +0100 Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> wrote: > Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest > -RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my > system to an incoherent state: > > 1) Regularly run freebsd-update > 2) Regularly run portsnap > 3) Set my PACKAGESITE to the -STABLE location > 4) Regularly run portupgrade -P > It'll work most of the time, but occasionally it will fail, when a STABLE package relies on a library or other feature that's not in the release. A compromise might be to stick to the release packages, until portaudit reveals a significant vulnerability and then switch to Stable until the next release.
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