> John writes:
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>>1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs
>>mount it?
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> I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas!
>
It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and install the new kernel. Remember to reboot when you are done.
>
>>2. As others have mentioned, firebird is a fast-moving target. You *need* a
>>cvsupped ports in order to keep up with it. So why not install the tree,
>>portupgrade whatever rapidly changing applications you need (portupgrade
>>-aRr), then rm -rf /usr/ports?
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> I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that.
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>>hmm. I've never used sysinstall for ports stuff apart from the initial
>>preparation.. When preparing a machine, I'll install the ports tree, and
>>cvsup-without-gui, and that's it.
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>
> I'll have to look into this when time permits. It seems like a lot of
> effort for something that normally isn't done very much on a production
> system (presumably one is not constantly installing and deinstalling
> software on a production server).
>
Not installing and deinstalling, but updating. I use cvsup and portupgrade about once a week to keep my system up to date. If you are running a production system and don't, then you are putting yourself and your users at risk (especially on systems running lots of applications). I am not running a production system btw this is just for my home system.
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