On March 26, 2008 12:18 pm Siju George wrote: > I ask this because I am more familiar with OpenBSD and it has > > 1) The ports tree that comes with the OS Release > 2) The ports tree that gets only security updates ( called > ports-stable) 3) The ports tree that has newer versions of ports ( > called ports-current )
There is only 1 ports tree on FreeBSD, that is constantly being updated. You can update the ports tree that is on your system using a variety of methods. The two most common are: - portsnap - csup Read the man pages, Handbook sections on keeping current and ports, and the examples listed under /usr/share/examples/cvsup for more information. Once the ports tree on your system has been updated, then you can use tools like pkg_version to see which of your installed apps have updates available, portaudit to see which installed apps have known security vulnerabilities, and portmaster to automatically update the app(s) and their dependencies. pkg_version is part of the base OS. portaudit and portmaster can be installed via the ports tree. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
