Any issues?

[Doug Barton]

Chris wrote:
> Greetings, I synced up both my source and ports trees 4 days ago and as I
> haven't built a kernel for about 5mos. coupled with the security issues
> that have developed since then. I want to (re)build both kernel and and
> already installed ports on my SMP box.

First off, It's important to note that with FreeBSD you should not just
build and install a new kernel every N months. FreeBSD is a complete
operating system, so it's important that you follow the procedure in
/usr/src/UPDATING to keep your whole system up to date.

As for ports, you really only need to update the ports that have newer
versions in the tree. Within a major release version number (like the 6.x
branch) it's hardly ever necessary to rebuild all your ports. If I may, I'd
like to suggest that you take a look at ports/sysutils/portmaster, which is
a script I wrote to help make managing your installed ports easier.

hth,

Doug

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