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--- freebsd [08/31/2011 09:49] – [upgrading packages] admin
+++ freebsd [09/11/2011 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-- list outdated ports
+  * list outdated ports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 =====
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 ==== Avoiding ports ====
-If you have a machine with low resources like e.g. in a VM, or do not want to wait for port compilations, it makes sense to install only prebuilt packages, while keeping a release base system so that freebsd-update can be used. This is what I chose to do:
+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 8.1 RELEASE, kept up-to-date with freebsd-update.
+  * Base system with 8.2-RELEASE, kept up-to-date with freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install
-  * Packages for RELEASE are never updated, so I install packages from the stable prebuilt package collection from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable
+  * 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