Hi Guys
I have been looking into ways to keep my system upto date and have gotten myself a bit turned around.
To update my port tree I have this in my crontab:
Which sends me an email advising that there are ports to update. However I have found at least three ways to do the update, each of which seems to have their own pros and cons.
The best options I have found so far are:
Or this script:
Or this script: http://www.mebsd.com/freebsd-security-hardening/update-freebsd-with-portmaster.html
I know there are alot of opinions in the forum and portmaster looks to be the method of choice but is there any reason to think otherwise? I have run portmanager already, will it preclude using the portmaster next time?
Thanks
I have been looking into ways to keep my system upto date and have gotten myself a bit turned around.
To update my port tree I have this in my crontab:
Code:
portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL=
Which sends me an email advising that there are ports to update. However I have found at least three ways to do the update, each of which seems to have their own pros and cons.
The best options I have found so far are:
Code:
portupgrade -aRrP
Code:
portmanager -u -l
Code:
portmaster -ay
Or this script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/portsnap fetch update && \
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
Or this script: http://www.mebsd.com/freebsd-security-hardening/update-freebsd-with-portmaster.html
I know there are alot of opinions in the forum and portmaster looks to be the method of choice but is there any reason to think otherwise? I have run portmanager already, will it preclude using the portmaster next time?
Thanks