Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:21:05 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Base system" applications, files (newby-ish questions) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205201117210.13877-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200205192332.47158.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
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On Sun, 19 May 2002, Steve Mazerski wrote: > On Sunday 19 May 2002 22:23, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (May 19), Steve Mazerski said: > > > (...) > > > 1. "Base system" applications > > > > > > not quite sure what the technical term is, but FreeBSD installs a > > > certain number of applications as part of the basic installation. Is > > > there any way of generating an overview (a la pkg_info) of which > > > applications / versions thereof are installed? > > > > For the most part, you can assume the version of all the binaries is > > "4.5", or whatever version of BSD you just installed. > > Sorry, forgot to mention. I installed 4.5-RELEASE. > > > The base > > system is pretty much treated as a single unit. Exceptions are > > programs that are actively maintained outside of FreeBSD: gcc, ntpd, > > ssh, etc. The release engineers try not to upgrade these, preferring > > to merge in only security fixes. Makes it easier to people to upgrade > > without having to redo all their config files. > > Does that mean updates to these are made available between > FreeBSD releases, or only with each successive release? Updates are made available continuously. What you're looking for is described as "tracking -stable" (or possibly, just tracking security fixes to the release) and is described in the handbook: generally, this is done by keeping the source to the base system up-to-date with a tool such as cvsup and rebuildint the world. This is a simple task these days. There _is_ an effort to packageise the whole of the base system; in which case, binary upgrades should become simpler. But this is still something that's slated for the future. [other questions seem to have been answered] -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Prolog in JavaScript: http://ioctl.org/logic/prolog-latest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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