From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 22 18:06:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9E216A402 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0E8D13C4A7 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:05:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 87596 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2007 18:05:58 -0000 Received: from 217.196.247.135 (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (217.196.247.135) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 22 Feb 2007 18:05:58 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <45DDDC3A.3020407@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:08:58 +0000 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <20070222174818.GA20500@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070222174818.GA20500@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary updating 6.0-6.2 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: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:06:00 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: > Hello Robin, > >> I see from the latest announcement that freebsd-update is now in the base >> system for 6.2. Following the links I see there's a procedure for 6.0-61. >> and another for 6.1-6.2 binary updating. >> > > By the way, I see that your post says binary update, but I really > don't have confidence in that and prefer updating the source > and doing the build as I described in my response. > > ////jerry > no problem, I just replied to that and I almost guessed you might have missed the binaryness. My experience of the binary update process is fairly positive, but there have been glitches eg my lsof didn't get updated along with a kernel and I now see stuff like lsof: WARNING: compiled for FreeBSD release 6.0-RELEASE; this is 6.0-SECURITY. when using it. I suppose things like lsof needing to be recompiled are an implied dependency and may be hard to find. -- Robin Becker