Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 2/8/2010 12:30 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to:
>>
>> - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world
>>   and kernels.
> 
> This implies you're running one of the -STABLE branches, rather than
> -RELEASE: updates to -RELEASE happen much less frequently than weekly...
> 
>> - Regularly (several times a week), do a 'portupgrade -arR'
>>
>> - Somewhat frequently do a 'pkgdb -F'
>>
>> IOW, I keep the OS, kernels, and ports fairly up-to-date.
> 
> Yep.  It's good to do that, although your methodology would be pretty
> hard to cope with on any more than a few machines.


Yup, 'tis -stable.  And, no, I wouldn't do a farm of machines
this way.  For that, I wrote/use this:

   http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/


Matthew & Lowell - thanks for taking the time ...
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