From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 07:08:05 2008 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 B929C1065675 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jevv.cr@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E29B8FC17 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jevv.cr@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so1405201wag.27 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:08:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=yFCQSKmafwxUFULPeD5Hi0Gu+m7Ox5rmkIjeh3y0R8A=; b=j5j05+q86CaK7m4myEiO4l36grBwW1+MJVdhO6yRRgGA65lcKaeiIMxHzDDQmADQLm iaQ3c9IKGeo5g8vSAQkhyBS8gp4s2esWzce/Q0NFYUyBj07WuMfWrhE8DEQ2fwv9oEdL T06oFWzPWt+PFTnFUreYBSh2mn+kKjQV0rBxU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=s2RUr+T9wCT1i3/UTNyIw3X7i1T7k4GmkZvonYWOLobbgcNnFZdsNb6dmXLze1B8hQ GDaZwH51T6VqCIC4AAiOYtBJcrKHk7AAMU2q/1qQQdpZcoTa+l+mQXBkX1auwCTqc0WU tpGBuEd9VS3jST0VvjdNs5gLdVANuMNXeMTKw= Received: by 10.115.32.8 with SMTP id k8mr7077860waj.54.1228200118864; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.109.15 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:41:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:41:58 -0600 From: "Javier Vasquez" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... 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, 02 Dec 2008 07:08:05 -0000 Hi, I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get updated with portsnap, but that doesn't update neither the intalled ports, nor the installed packages. To upgrade the installed ports, portmanager or portmaster or portupgrade can be used... However only portupgrade can be used to upgrade packages, right? Now, can something like "portupgrade -a -PP" to upgrade all packages without building a thing (might be that some don't get updated due to the lack of binary package yet, and in such case would dependencies be managed right)? More into how things work, as ports and pacakages are not part of the base systems, are they somehow associated to a particular release (most probably not)? So that pretty much no matter the release, if packages and ports are kept up to date, they might be the same for all releases? I'm asking these questions since I'm evaluating moving to BSD, but I want to avoid compiling as much as possible since my box is 800MHz piii celeron with just 32KB of cache and 512MB of ram, and for it source based distributions have proven to be too much to handle, so my intention would be to live with binary packages and updates/upgrades only... Also if remaining under -STABLE, is all this possible? Kind of understood that openoffice.org can't be installed with "pkg_add -r", so most probably if living under -STABLE automatic updates for openoffice.org won't show up... So this kinds of answers one previous question about the packages been independent from the base system release, it looks like they aren't... Thanks, -- Javier