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freebsd [2011/08/31 17:57] – [freebsd-update] adminfreebsd [2011/09/11 07:50] (current) – [Avoiding ports] admin
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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, 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: 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   * 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
  
  
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