Hello!
First, I'm very new to FreeBSD, so sorry if I am misunderstanding anything.
I recently installed FreeBSD 13.0 release onto my old MacBook, MacBook4,1. (uname -a :
FreeBSD freecrad 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 17 09:41:22 KST 2021 root@freecrad:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/WIFI amd64)
I built and installed a custom kernel since my wlan card is a bcm43xx. The "custom kernel" is just copied generic config and enabled bwn phy? configurations. I saw infos from the wiki's MacMini document and such, the bwn driver, I installed it, and also some programs I don't remember I had may installed from ports instead of the pkg tool.
What I am curious now is, how can I keep my system up to date? Do I need to rebuild the kernel every releases? And what about the program I built from ports? Is there any "updater" program in FreeBSD that auto detects which programs are built from source and builds them again or something...?
Thanks!
Best Regards, HexagonWin.
First, I'm very new to FreeBSD, so sorry if I am misunderstanding anything.
I recently installed FreeBSD 13.0 release onto my old MacBook, MacBook4,1. (uname -a :
FreeBSD freecrad 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 17 09:41:22 KST 2021 root@freecrad:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/WIFI amd64)
I built and installed a custom kernel since my wlan card is a bcm43xx. The "custom kernel" is just copied generic config and enabled bwn phy? configurations. I saw infos from the wiki's MacMini document and such, the bwn driver, I installed it, and also some programs I don't remember I had may installed from ports instead of the pkg tool.
What I am curious now is, how can I keep my system up to date? Do I need to rebuild the kernel every releases? And what about the program I built from ports? Is there any "updater" program in FreeBSD that auto detects which programs are built from source and builds them again or something...?
Thanks!
Best Regards, HexagonWin.