Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:15:08 +0100 From: Oliver Leitner <Shadow333@gmx.at> To: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt Message-ID: <20050202142032.2B5A143D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050202141102.18500.qmail@web51707.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050202141102.18500.qmail@web51707.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:11, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> --- 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
freebsd-update keeps the non-ports part of freebsd up to date.
>
>
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