Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:20:04 -0600 From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> To: "rotten rottie" <r0tt13@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Question about security updates. Message-ID: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD967471822D@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3B9D2.742F380D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable rottie - =20 I'm fairly new to FreeBSD as well (a converted Mandrake user) and I have attached my little cheat sheet about working with the ports tree and running updates. >From what I understand, the ports tree is not installed software, it's just a list of everything that can be installed and a location to easily install it. Just because you have /usr/ports/security/ssh/ in your ports tree does not mean that it is installed. I hope that my attached file helps. It's just what I've compiled into one place from my questions in different discussions and reading http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/. Good luck, Ben -----Original Message----- From: rotten rottie [mailto:r0tt13@hotmail.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:21 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Question about security updates. I am a linux user that wants to switch to freebsd... I am a bit confused about applying updates etc.. I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports=20 to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that=20 another version of openssh was installed on the system. I talked with a=20 friend and he said that it was part of usr/src and I could update it by=20 compiling the usr.bin version.. which was fine and worked. Here are my=20 questions: 1) if there are two trees(lack of better words) why would ssh exit in both=20 the system tree and the ports tree ? Wouldnt it be better to have it in the=20 ports tree ? 2) I have used gentoo in the past and am curious if there is something=20 simular to emerge -up world/system -- I would like to cvs the ports/sys and=20 then be able to see if anything need upgrading .. is this possible ? 3) Say there was a update to openssh .. which would be the proper way to update .. sync the sys tree and then just update ssh .. or sync the tree and=20 recompile the system ? or remove the sys version and install the port=20 version and update the port ? I am very happy with freebsd .. Im still in the exploring stage .. The=20 reasons for my questions is that I am a little weary of using freebsd in production if I dont easily know when updates are avail, having to recompile=20 the system everytime I need a patch for a service. Thanks for helping me convert, rottie _________________________________________________________________ Tired of slow downloads and busy signals? Get a high-speed Internet=20 connection! 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