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| freebsd [2011/08/31 10:09] – [Avoiding ports] admin | freebsd [2011/09/11 07:50] (current) – [Avoiding ports] admin | ||
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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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| If you have a machine with low resources like e.g. running in a VM, or do not want to wait for port compilations, | If you have a machine with low resources like e.g. running in a VM, or do not want to wait for port compilations, | ||
| - | * 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 | * Keep your ports tree updated as shown above | ||
| - | * Set .profile environment variable PACKAGESITE for 8-STABLE to ftp:// | + | * Set .profile environment variable PACKAGESITE for 8-STABLE to ftp:// |
| - | * Install packages using portupgrade -vaRrPP. Portupgrade | + | * Install packages using portupgrade -vaRrPP |