Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:11:02 -0800 (PST) From: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> To: Oliver Leitner <Shadow333@gmx.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt Message-ID: <20050202141102.18500.qmail@web51707.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- Oliver Leitner <Shadow333@gmx.at> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:19, saravanan
> ganapathy wrote:
> > Hai ,
> >
> > I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my
> > system uptodate with the security patches.
> >
> > Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc.
> Pls
> > confirm me whether my steps are ok
> >
> > 1) Install portupgrade
> > 2) Sync ports
> >
> > Ports-supfile contains as
> >
> > *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=.
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > ports-all
> >
> > ( or should I change tag=RELENG_5_3 )
> >
> > cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
> >
> > 3) portsdb -Uu
> > 4) portversion -v
> > 5) portupgrade -arR { to upgrade from all the
> lower
> > versions of applications )
>
> id add the following things:
>
> 1. install portaudit.
> 2. portupgrade portdir/portname (e.g. portupgrade
> lang/perl5)
> 3. if portupgrade portdir/portname doesnt do, use
> the -f flag.
> 4. install freebsd-update from the security ports
> dir.
> 5. freebsd-update fetch
> 6. freebsd-update install
> 7. in case freebsd-update did find new kernel
> modules, you might eventually
> want to reboot the machine
what freebsd-update fetch & install will do?
Sarav
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