Hello Everybody!
Just recently I migrated to FreeBSD from Debian Linux and I'd like to ask a couple of noobish question about things that confuse me in FreeBSD OS. I'm sure that information concerning things I want to ask about are there somewhere but I just can't seem to find straightforward answers. Please go easy on me
The first thing: the 'freebsd-update' command. When I use it to download and apply 'patches' I'm applying them to what exactly? Only kernel, applications included in vanilla installation of FreeBSD? And how does this relate to 'pkg' command? Is pkg able to update the same things freebsd-update updates? I just can't understand this, because in Debian there was no division - all I had to do was 'apt-get upgrade' and the system updates everything from kernel to web browser.
The second thing: how ports relate to the package system? When I install something from ports will the information concerning this application be available to pkg? Can I update an application which I installed from the ports collection with pkg? And if so - how would the update process treat custom-build application?
Just recently I migrated to FreeBSD from Debian Linux and I'd like to ask a couple of noobish question about things that confuse me in FreeBSD OS. I'm sure that information concerning things I want to ask about are there somewhere but I just can't seem to find straightforward answers. Please go easy on me
The first thing: the 'freebsd-update' command. When I use it to download and apply 'patches' I'm applying them to what exactly? Only kernel, applications included in vanilla installation of FreeBSD? And how does this relate to 'pkg' command? Is pkg able to update the same things freebsd-update updates? I just can't understand this, because in Debian there was no division - all I had to do was 'apt-get upgrade' and the system updates everything from kernel to web browser.
The second thing: how ports relate to the package system? When I install something from ports will the information concerning this application be available to pkg? Can I update an application which I installed from the ports collection with pkg? And if so - how would the update process treat custom-build application?