Gargleblaster.org » upgrading http://www.gargleblaster.org Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Upgrading freeBSD http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/03/06/upgrading-freebsd.html http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/03/06/upgrading-freebsd.html#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:38:16 +0000 Merlijn http://www.gargleblaster.org/?p=142 Keeping mission critical machines up2date is always a burden for a sysadmin.
Esp. if you are an allround sysadmin, responsible for all kind of servers.
On freeBSD, this has become quite easy.
There has is a new tool in town: portsnap.

Setup is easy. See this article on TaoSecurity.
After installing it boils down to this:

cd /usr/ports
portsnap fetch
portsnap update
make fetchindex
portsdb -u
portversion -v -l “<”
Check /usr/ports/UPDATING for information relating to my applications
portupgrade -varR

Total control :)

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