On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: > Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the > installed ports/packages up to date automatically? > > I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean something > that actually reinstalls the things ad needed, sort of like windows > update or the updater on ubuntu.
Well, almost. For ports I'd advise portmaster. All in all it works well, but you have to keep reading /usr/ports/UPDATING. And since some ports configuration values can't be handled by the options framework, you've got to put them in /etc/make.conf if you want to automate things. Rebuilding the kernel + world is relatively easy and well documented in the handbook, but the mergemaster(8) step requires a human looking at which config files to update or to leave alone. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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