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Hi, Couple of questions about portmaster. Given that the documentation and some tools related to the "ports" system regard programs installed from binary package repository as "ports", does that mean: 1. We can use tools like portmaster to manage everything, regardless of the way it was...

Hello FreeBSD forum! I just installed FreeBSD for the first time and wanted to upgrade the whole system. (I'm planning on only using the pre-compiled packages, if that matters. And I have ran the # /usr/sbin/pkg command) But did I understand correctly that if I run # freebsd-update fetch #...

Is it still bad practice to update installed ports with Portmaster -a or -af? In this 15799 user "phoenix" says, that Is this information still valid? The FreeBSD handbook recommends just to use: portmaster -a and if that fails, then: portmaster -af

Hello, Recently I updated my server FreeBSD server to 10.3 release. I have a few jails at that server and one of them with DNS. I used to work with Bind and expected to install a fresh one to the jail, in case that Bind isn't part of the base system since 10.0 release. When I check my jail I...

Hello, I'm trying to update the base system of the jails on my host. I created the jails using EZJail. On the host or on the jails, I think the correct way to check if my base system is up to date is to call # freebsd-update fetch This way I get a list of available updates. If the list is...

Hi. I have upgraded host from 10.1 to 10.3. After that i coudn't start ezjail. I edited fstab.jail_name to /usr/jails/basejail /usr/jails/jail_name/basejail nullfs ro 0 0 After that it started. I stoped it. Updated jail with ezjail-admin update -U -s 10.1-RELEASE mergemaster -U -D...

I have successfully set up FreeBSD 11.0 on a Raspberry Pi model B+, using ISO images from the Wiki page. My current running version is FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE (RPI-B) #0 r308738: Thu Nov 17 06:47:11 UTC 2016 This is several months out of date... in fact, I see there was a release just yesterday...

I am using sysutils/qjail for my jails (qjail-5.0). My host system is: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE. Normally I would fetch the hosts' ports tree: portsnap fetch update Then I would update the ports tree of the jails: qjail update -p I would normally then be able to list packages which could be...

I'm getting the following 'database disk image is malformed' error messages that are preventing portmaster -a from updating any ports. Does anyone know of a fix for this?: portmaster -a [[ snip ]] ===>>> All >> (19) ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed...

Hello, I regularly update my 2 FreeBSD servers using freebsd-update fetch install and portmaster -a. Both running as VM on VMWare ESXi v6.5. After last update both servers are responding extremely slow, especially ssh logins and using su to get root, and SHA256 checksums when upgrading ports...

I have a problem with Windows 10 Anniversary update on bhyve. When I try to update, installer reports too low memory! (At least 2GB required) I've set 8GB, task manager shows 8GB, available is 7GB. Is this the problem with bhyve? I have Hyper-V as well and there wasn't any problem with the...

I just got FreeBSD running on a raspberry pi. I tried a few different ISO files before finding one I could successfully boot. The one that worked for me was FreeBSD-11.0-RC3-arm-armv6-RPI2.img. After install I realised there is not only 11.0-RC3 available, but also 11.0-RELEASE. I'm brand new...

Hey guys, I'm having this problem since this morning when I pkg update Updating trueos-base repository catalogue... Fetching meta.txz: 100% 1 KiB 1.5kB/s 00:01 pkg-static: Error loading trusted certificates repository trueos-base has no meta file, using default settings Fetching...

I followed the update instructions here to update from 10.1 to 10.3. My only way of accessing this server is via ssh, and I have now been locked out (the ssh address is no longer known by my PC). Are there any steps to take / configurations to check to prevent this from happening again? I cannot...

Sorry for creating a new thread but I thought it would be better to start a new one either to respawn the old one. But I didn't understand from an old discussion if it was a bug of ezjail-admin or it was a normal behaviour. But how to update jails in that case? And how do I understand update is...

I am upgrading 10.2 to 10.3. freebsd-update -r 10.3-RELEASE upgrade said that the following files have changed /.cshrc /.profile /root/.cshrc /root/.profile and it won't be installing them. But actually didn't show any merge. Where the update or mergemaster store the new config files unpacked...

Hey people, I was looking for some info about whats the best way to keep jails updated and found many posts saying to never run freebsd-update inside of the jails. Someone could explain why not? Actually I am doing a make world, but this take so many time. My jails have the empty folders...

I'm trying to update my old system: 7.4-RELEASE-p5 -> 8.4-RELEASE-p36 After running #cd /usr/src and #make buildworld: ===> lib/libmagic (obj,build-tools) /var/tmp//cc46YY2J.o(.text+0xdfb): In function `load_1': : undefined reference to `getline' *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 1...

Right now I have set up my home "play box" machine (vsftpd listening on Internet, Samba listening on LAN, BitTorrent client) to apply updates in the core system and ports in an unattended manner. This means automatically. Then I grep the log and if a patch is available, I reboot the system (I...

I'm keeping getting weird messages when I try to update my email managed jails: I'm on FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p11 and ezjail v3.4.2 The jails show the right version inside but the update progress doesn't seem to have finished. This is what I'm getting: ezjail-admin update -u Looking up...