Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 11:16:48 +0200 From: Roberto <giaffy@gmail.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: packages (binary) update best practice Message-ID: <CAPwCGUC3unSqKFT17z3vZRUYKa-JMoHKdUyTUbCdUYWdKnyG8A@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I have update recently to freebsd 9.1 via freebsd-update and I was quite happy with the process and the instructions on freebsd-handbook, I think well documented. But I would like to understand what is the best practice to update the ports too as I used the package tools (pkg_add -r) to add few package to the base install. Keeping in mind my server have disk space constrain (small disk install) I would ask an opinion about the followings methods to upgrade packages after a freebsd upgrade (in this case from 9.0 to 9.1): 1) perform # pkg_delete <pkg_name> and then # pkg_add -r <pkg_name> for each of them ? (I think about some package depends on other, this could create some little problem); 2) perform # pkg_add -F <pkg_name> (not tried yet) and overwrite the already installed pkg ? 3) have a separate server on which create an update pkg from ports (ie from source) ? 4) use the new package system pkgng, converting the existing installation ? (this operation is not reversible, so I am waiting before doing this) I would have some ideas on this topic please, from a security perspective; Thanks Roberto
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