On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:16:11PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: Hi,
I am not expert on all this, but can give a couple of impressions. > Hello, > > I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. Welcome to FreeBSD. It is a good system. > I've searched a lot in google, mailing list, forums, freebsd > handbook and I am still not clear about the following. > > In a RELEASE fresh install, after updating the ports using i.e. > portsnap, the packages downloaded with pkp_add -r are older > versions respect their port counterparts, leading to > dependencies issues. So, once the ports tree is updated: > > 1) Am I forced to compile all? Anything that has changed and anything that depends on those things. That can mean a lot of recompiling. > > 2) Should I use STABLE to get the same versions with pkg_add > than compiling up to date ports? Are STABLE packages compiled > from this ports? Check this page: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ It's more accurate than what I started to wrie. The ports tree and the OS release generally sync up when a RELEASE comes out, but that soon begins to diverge as ports are changed. Ports are worked on independently by port maintainers. ////jerry > 3) In case my assumption above is correct; taking in care that > in a production system it is advisable (handbook) to stay with > RELEASE, should I avoid updating the ports tree in i.e. a server > machine? What to do with broken ports in this case? > > Resuming, is there a default way to install-update the software > keeping ports and binary packages in one piece? What is > advisable in general terms for a desktop and what for a server? > > It will be enough for me if someone just point me to documentation. > > Big thanks > > > Walter > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
