On 2012-04-30 12:20, Philip wrote: > > The problem is that the freebsd install isn't well patched because I > just can't get along with the package management as well as debian apt. >
Can you be more specific as to what problems you have with FreeBSD package management - maybe we could help you ? an example would be fine. I agree that the current FreeBSD package management lacks features and/or works differently than you'd expect when used to the linux ones. But until the "pkgng" package management is ready I've found a simple workaround that in my opinion makes the current FreeBSD package management usable. 0) become root 1) Add the the "bsdadminscripts" package to your insstallation: pkg_add -r bsdadminscripts 2) make sure that you have a /usr/ports directory: mkdir -p /usr/ports 3) run "pkg_upgrade -a" to refresh all you currrently installed packages to the latest versions. 4) run "pkg_upgrade some_pkg_name" to refresh just the one package and its dependencies. HINT: -n option is a dry-run flag - shows what would have been done if command was issued without the -n option HINT: -v option is a verbose flag - shows more detailed output. Hope that helps. /Uffe _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
