Staying up to date - easy way?
Alex de Kruijff
akruijff at dds.nl
Thu Jul 3 01:05:20 PDT 2003
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote:
> > Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with
> > FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing
> > seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge
> > thing the first time you do it and get smaller / faster after that or
> > am I just completely missing something else. Could I make a refuse
> > file and refuse everything except what I need? Am I clueless?
> >
> There usaly are binairies updates when a security update is repored
> comes availble. Usaly the website despribes a way to install them.
> Make sure that you are on the rigth mailinglists. (www.freebsd.org; i
> can't give you the exact link, since i am in a somewhat limet
> enverioment right now.
>
> The proces you desribe takes a couple of hours and is compicated to
> do the first time. After that it easy. The /etc/make.conf file allow
> you control over the build process. This includes some controle about
> what not to build.
>
> A build proces normaly looks like this:
> mergemaster -p
> make buildworld; make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
>
> This all can run in the background. After that, and there are no
> errors, you can get the machine in single user mode and install it with:
> make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> check for errors
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> reboot
>
> It looks more compicated than it is, realy. I usaly run the build pard
> on the backgound with the commands:
> idprio 30 make buildworld; idprio 30 make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC &
>
> This effectivly makes it give preference to all other processes as much
> as posible. I also written a script for my self to make this process
> easier for my self. I included it as an atachement. Its smart not to use
> this for the first time you build the world in order to get a feeling
> for the proces.
Oesp here's the atachement.
Alex
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