keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

[Oliver Leitner]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:19, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> Hai ,
>
> I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my
> system uptodate with the security patches.
>
> Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc. Pls
> confirm me whether my steps are ok
>
> 1) Install portupgrade
> 2) Sync ports
>
>      Ports-supfile contains as
>
>     *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org
>     *default base=/var/db
>     *default prefix=/usr
>     *default release=cvs tag=.
>     *default delete use-rel-suffix
>     ports-all
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> ( or should I change tag=RELENG_5_3 )
>
>   cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
>
> 3) portsdb -Uu
> 4) portversion -v
> 5) portupgrade -arR  { to upgrade from all the lower
> versions of applications )

id add the following things:

1. install portaudit.
2. portupgrade portdir/portname (e.g. portupgrade lang/perl5)
3. if portupgrade portdir/portname doesnt do, use the -f flag.
4. install freebsd-update from the security ports dir.
5. freebsd-update fetch
6. freebsd-update install
7. in case freebsd-update did find new kernel modules, you might eventually 
want to reboot the machine.
>
> Any other steps to do?
>
> What 'make fetchindex' will do?
>

make fetchindex from what i might tell does the same as portsdb -Uu
(if i got that wrong, please forgive me... i just had my first month with BSD)

> Pls guide me
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Greetings
Oliver Leitner
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