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| freebsd [2011/08/31 10:01] – [installing binary packages] admin | freebsd [2011/09/11 07:50] (current) – [Avoiding ports] admin | ||
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| * Unordered List Itemlist of installed packages | * Unordered List Itemlist of installed packages | ||
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| pkg_info | pkg_info | ||
| * list outdated ports | * list outdated ports | ||
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| pkg_version -v | pkg_version -v | ||
| * list unused ports | * list unused ports | ||
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| pkg_cutleaves | pkg_cutleaves | ||
| * find out to which port an application belongs | * find out to which port an application belongs | ||
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| pkg_which pkgdb | pkg_which pkgdb | ||
| pkg_which -v kde* | pkg_which -v kde* | ||
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| 2. the utility supports minor and major release upgrades. | 2. the utility supports minor and major release upgrades. | ||
| freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade | freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade | ||
| + | See [[http:// | ||
| ===== upgrading packages ===== | ===== upgrading packages ===== | ||
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| ==== Avoiding ports ==== | ==== 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, | + | If you have a machine with low resources like e.g. running |
| - | * Base system with 8.1-RELEASE, kept up-to-date with freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install | + | * Base system with 8.2-RELEASE, kept up-to-date with freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install |
| - | * Set .profile environment variable PACKAGESITE for 8-STABLE to ftp:// | + | * Keep your ports tree updated as shown above |
| - | * Install packages using portupgrade -vaRrPP | + | * Set .profile environment variable PACKAGESITE for 8-STABLE to ftp:// |
| + | * Install packages using portupgrade -vaRrPP | ||