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--- freebsd [2011/08/30 14:55] – [upgrading packages] admin
+++ freebsd [2011/09/11 07:50] (current) – [Avoiding ports] admin
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 A FreeBSD system is composed of:
-  * The base system, consisting of the kernel plus world (the OS files in /usr/src), updated with csup.
+  * The base system, consisting of the kernel plus world (the userland OS files in /usr/src), updated with csup.
   * User installed applications, which are handled via the ports tree, see /var/db/pkg/*, updated by compiling ports or installing binary packages.
 ====== FreeBSD update ======
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   pkg_deinstall paket* or pkg_delete paket
-- list of installed packages
+  * Unordered List Itemlist of installed packages
   pkg_info
-- list outdated ports
+  * list outdated ports
   pkg_version -v
-- list unused ports
+  * list unused ports
   pkg_cutleaves
-- find out to which port an application belongs
+  * find out to which port an application belongs
   pkg_which pkgdb
   pkg_which -v kde*
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 . the utility supports minor and major release upgrades.
   freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade
+See [[http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html|this]] for details of upgrading to 8.2-RELEASE.
 ===== upgrading packages =====
-pkg_add -r is the binary method, but if the latest version is no available in the default RELEASE mirror, the variable PACKAGESITE should be changed to STABLE as packages-*-release directories are built from the ports collection shipped with the release, and are not updated. But packages-*-stable and packages-*-current are updated roughly once a week. To make this the default, change /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
+There's only one ports tree. The ports tree doesn't branch. There is no special version of the ports tree to go with a specific version of FreeBSD. However, there are pre-built packages for -stable and -release. pkg_add -r is the binary method, but if the latest version is no available in the default RELEASE mirror, the variable PACKAGESITE should be changed to STABLE as packages-*-release directories are built from the ports collection shipped with the release, and are not updated. But packages-*-stable and packages-*-current are updated roughly once a week. To make this the default, change /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
-  setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Lat...
+  setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/
 - upgrade port tree using portsnap:
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 - if there is anything to upgrade you should make sure that PACKAGESITE is using STABLE instead of RELEASE and then run portupgrade:
-  portupgrade -vaRrp
+  portupgrade -vaRrPc
+To avoid breaking software you should always check /usr/ports/UPDATING. PKG_SITES will only be used by the ports-mgmt/portupgrade scripts; if you want to use pkg_add(1) manually, and obtain the 8-stable packages, then you should define PACKAGESITE in your environment, or provide a full URL.  The ports-mgmt/portupgrade scripts also respect PACKAGESITE, which will override PACKAGEROOT and PKG_SITES in those scripts.
+==== Avoiding ports ====
-To avoid breaking software you should always check /usr/ports/UPDATING
+If you have a machine with low resources like e.g. running in a VM, or do not want to wait for port compilations, it makes sense to install only pre-built packages while keeping a release base system so that freebsd-update can be used without bothering about compiling your kernel. This is what I chose to do:
+  * Base system with 8.2-RELEASE, kept up-to-date with freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install
+  * Keep your ports tree updated as shown above
+  * Set .profile environment variable PACKAGESITE for 8-STABLE to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/
+  * Install packages using portupgrade -vaRrPP so that portupgrade tries to find the package version given by the updated ports tree and stops when the package is not available