Keeping Freebsd 11.2 PPC up to date

[Justin Hibbits]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:09:52 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:50:43PM +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> > I'm about to put a freebsd server in production. I've installed
> > 11.2-RELEASE from cd. I would like to know how am I supposed to
> > keep it up-to-date, at least security wise: "svn info /usr/src"
> > issues:
> > 
> > svn: E155007: '/usr/src' is not a working copy  
> 
> That's probably because you've selected "src" distset to be unpacked
> during the installation.  Don't do that, instead, check it out with
> svnline(1) if you plan to track it and/or build world from it:
> 
> svnline co
> svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/<branch-you-want-to-track> /usr/src

svnlite here :)

> 
> Alternatively, you might want to chase binary updates; in this case,
> refer to freebsd-update(8).
> 
> ./danfe

Unfortunately, freebsd-update doesn't work for powerpc, being Tier2
arch.

- Justin