Is there a suggested method for updating a newly installed FreeBSD 6.0system? I have found several websites with similar but differing methods, often somehow specific to the author's configuration. What I usually do first is install from a CD and get a bare-bones system bootable. What I would like to do after that is update the kernel, system programs, user programs, and packages. I usually end up using cvsup, portsnap, and portupgrade with varying levels of success.
What I would really like is a fool-proof method that works everytime, if there is such a thing. For example, rebuilding things at the lowest layer first, and working my way up. I was following a websites tutorial yesterday, and was confronted with a "stale imagemagic dependency", where I chose to "force" an override. I didn't know if I was doing some wrong or not, and it seemed to work, but I would rather not have to force anything, if possible. Previously I had posted the steps I was using, and several people made annotations which I was able to integrate, but I was mostly curious if there wasn't some standard way. I am trying to use portsnap, since it seems much faster than cvsup, but the handbook doesn't seem to have portsnap integrated in to the rebuild steps yet (it is in the appendix I think). There seems to be updates steps for 4.x and 5.x, but not yet 6.x, or maybe I just have found them yet. There seems to be a lot of ways to update your system right now. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
