From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 06:19:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC369106566C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:19:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unix.hacker@comcast.net) Received: from qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA078FC0C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id BJGz1i0060Fqzac59JK6x3; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:19:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([68.43.224.227]) by omta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id BJK61i0014uzdYs3UJK6ie; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:19:06 +0000 Message-ID: <4EF028D8.803@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:19:04 -0500 From: Allen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:19:06 -0000 Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use one of the two: pkg_add -r bunch of packages or sysinstall > Configure > Packages Then I go through the menus, and select what software I want, and, eventually, I'll tell it to start installing. Now, I've been reading about Ports more and more, and thought about maybe just using those instead, but even with upgrade_pkg from bsdaminscripts, I just can NOT seem to upgrade anything. I'd like to have my system fully patched, but most of the data I find, is about how to keep ports up to date, and has very little on Packages / Binaries. I don't think it matters much why I choose Binary Packages over Ports, I'm just looking to make sure the emails I get every once in a while on the root account will FINALLY not have a huge list of stuff that I need to either "delete / uninstall, or upgrade" and have no idea how. I mainly used Linux, so I AM a little more used to everything being patched at once, like Slackware, where you can type one command and install patches and stuff to everything you have installed, be it the Kernel, or an Xterm, or X itself, or Pidgin. Any of you that use pkg_add and Sysinstall to install packages, can you maybe describe what you do to install updates, Patches, or just in general, keep your system patched? I'd really appreciate that. -Allen