Hi, (List Administrators, please delete the last message, I got the wrong identity)
I also would like to tell a few things which I use for my FreeBSD systems (I have to administer a good dozen of them) * use freebsd-update for kernel and base system (This only works if using the release ISO's AND the official kernel) * use portsnap to manage the ports tree * use portupgrade to manage the installed packages. portinstall comes with it, which greatly helps with installing packages. * use portaudit to find outdated/insecure ports. Also, you can always do portupgrade -a if you want to upgrade simply all your ports packages. I hope this helps someone. Or did I misunderstand the question in a way? Richard Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012, 08:43:45 schrieben Sie: > 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
