Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 23:25:17 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fresh binary install Message-ID: <20110308222517.GA30691@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20110308141125.60c4982a@VGC-RB53> References: <20110308141125.60c4982a@VGC-RB53>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:11:25PM -0600, Chris wrote: > The goal - to keep this system running with as little intervention as > possible (I suspect binary updates/upgrades is the way to go since it > was something that was just starting a few years back).=20 Keeping the system itself up to date can be done with freebsd-update(8). But that will only provide the GENERIC kernel (and modules of course). A lot of ports are available as packages as well. One caveat is that those packages are built using the standard options defined per port. If you don't like those, you'll have to compile yourself. And there are of course ports that are not available as packages for several reasons. You can choose to install packages from several directories on the FTP site; packages-8-stable or packages-8.2-release depending on what you want. The packages-8.2-release directory is AFAIK a snapshot of packages-8-stable at = the moment 8.2 was released. If you install packages from -release, you'll only have to update them with a new release. But you won't have the latest and greatest, and to the best of my knowledge you will not get updated packages= if there are vulnerabilities discovered. OTOH, if you install packages from packages-8-stable you will have to contend with more frequent updates. Personally I've built all my ports from source, and I update them every oth= er week or so using portsnap(8) and portmaster(8). This usually doesn't take long, nor does it require much interaction.=20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk12rM0ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVviACcD2bfT5RiO4d5fxM0wuxZCpsE 4PMAn2tMVz1rATO9j5ZFBFfgBIq2Cmqk =RLWB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--
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