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--- freebsd [2011/08/31 10:08] – [Avoiding ports] admin
+++ freebsd [2011/09/11 07:50] (current) – [Avoiding ports] admin
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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 fetch and freebsd-update install
+  * 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
+  * 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. Portupgrade tries to find the package version given by the updated ports tree
+  * 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