Hi there.
I'm sorry if this seems like a basic question but slowly drifting back to the FreeBSD world after 10 years away in the Linux world ;) After some consideration, I believe I still like the idea of source based updating versus binary. This raises my first question - getting updating source. Where do I obtain it from and how do I know when it's updated? I presume only during major updates/upgrades and/or security issues is when the source tree ever changes? I understand (or believe I do) on the whole "make buildworld", "make installworld", "mergemaster -v" steps unless anything has changed in 7.2-RELEASE that I need to know about. I also remember how to build my own kernels and see that you can now do "make buildkernel KERNCONF=NEWKERNEL" and "make installkernel KERNCONF=NEWKERNEL" which is nice too. With that aside, I've been running "portsnap update" to keep the ports updated.. am I missing anything here? I presume that when portsnap finds an updated port then I just need to rebuild it and upgrade? I guess I'm kinda wondering the "condensed quick version" of what people are typically doing to keep their system updated from source without making life difficult ;) Yes, I've been reading through various things to get myself updated to newer info but there's also a lot of stuff on the Internet based on older info hence why I'm asking. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
