Svein Halvor Halvorsen skrev:
Hi, list!
I have just acquired a new computer to replace an old server. This older
server has been running FreeBSD 5.3 since 2004 and most of its packages
are way out of date. I've been scared of changing something in fear of
rendering the machine unbootable, or some core applications unrunnable.
I want to make sure I have better routines this time around, when I'm
starting a-fresh. I'd like to keep my system and packages fairly up to
date, and still keep the compiling to a minimum.
Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest
-RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my system
to an incoherent state:
1) Regularly run freebsd-update
2) Regularly run portsnap
3) Set my PACKAGESITE to the -STABLE location
4) Regularly run portupgrade -P
Will the postsnap'ed index always be in sync with what's available as
precompiled packages for -STABLE? Will these -STABLE packages always run
on my freebsd-update'd -RELEASE system? If some ports have the
NO_PACKAGE bit set, will compiling them against dependencies from
-STABLE work, as long as I've run portsnap?
Svein Halvor
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Hello Svein,
When I recently went from 6 to 7 I realized that it is less
time-consuming to wipe the machine clean and install fresh from the cd.
The pre-condition for this is separated disks for system and data.
/R
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