Upgrading packages

Boris Samorodov bsam at ipt.ru
Wed Sep 2 05:50:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:17:12 +0400
> Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:15:53 -0500 Chris wrote:
> > 
> > > Probably a long time discussed question:
> > > Updating a system is (or can be) done with freebsd-update.
> > > What is the suggested way of upgrading packages (not ports)?
> > 
> > The port sysutils/bsdadminscripts has a script pkg_upgrade
> > to upgrade packages.

> Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one sticks with RELEASE
> (until a point release that is I suppose).

Packges are build for STABLE as well:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/

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