Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-16 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM: Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-16 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM: Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 11:36 pm, Duane Winner wrote: Thanks for the reply, which was very helpful. Could you just clarify one thing for me? On your last point regarding 'SECURITY - STABLE - CURRENT', my understanding up to now has been that this applies to the FreeBSD 'src' tree only,

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD. I now understand

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Lee Mx
From: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:34:45 +0100 Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM: Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating

How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Duane Winner
Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD. I now understand how to use cvsup to

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:11 pm, Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my colleagues who also

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:11:22PM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: I now understand how to use cvsup to keep my src and ports tree current. I know how to use pkg_add -r to install new sotware, or go into /usr/ports/whatever to make install. I know how to do portupgrade to upgrade my installed

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Duane Winner
Thanks for the reply, which was very helpful. Could you just clarify one thing for me? On your last point regarding 'SECURITY - STABLE - CURRENT', my understanding up to now has been that this applies to the FreeBSD 'src' tree only, but not to the ports collection. Am I correct? If we are