From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 08:51:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1901A1065670 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:51:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc) Received: from bene1.itea.ntnu.no (bene1.itea.ntnu.no [IPv6:2001:700:300:3::56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565D58FC2C for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:51:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bene1.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E512616C7B8 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:51:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by bene1.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 235052401F for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:51:35 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 15074 invoked by uid 88); 23 Jan 2009 09:48:53 +0100 Received: from maren.math.ntnu.no (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (129.241.211.48) by maren.thelosingend.net (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:48:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4979867A.7010805@lvor.halvorsen.cc> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:30 +0100 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081205) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <49791625.7000806@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <20090123011412.1b4dfa5a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090123011412.1b4dfa5a@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at bene1.itea.ntnu.no Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way) 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: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:51:39 -0000 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >> Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest >> -RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my >> system to an incoherent state: RW wrote: > It'll work most of the time, but occasionally it will fail, when a > STABLE package relies on a library or other feature that's not in the > release. > > A compromise might be to stick to the release packages, until portaudit > reveals a significant vulnerability and then switch to Stable until > the next release. But when that happens, should I upgrade just the one affected package, or grab updates for all my installed packages, to make sure all packages on the system is concurrent? That is, made from the same ports tree at some point in time. Svein Halvor