Dear all member!
I'm using FreeBSD as email and web server - no desktop, no users, weak hardware - but it works since a long time.
I'm using mixing ports and packages for installing my applications. Because of the weak hardware I won't install everything over the ports, just the software for email (like sendmail, etc. and web server like apache, php-extensions, etc..)
I get a question, because I run into a lot of problems every time I'm doing updates:
After some times, there are ports sign as "vulnerable" for hacking - so I get something to do.
I do
Then I check new versions with
or
I have try to update with
portupgrade -a and the rest with
portupgrade -r abc.. or pkg install abc... until everything is new.
By the way, it take me sometimes days to solve that.[/U]
or with
Every time I got a lot of conflicts and every time I must work through my documentation from internet to reconfigure the eMail and webserver settings until they works again.
So, ..... Can I have packages and ports Installations at the same time? And how do I manged them without get conflicts.
Can I configure the package system that it don't install applications that I explicit install about the ports?
Thank you very much!
I'm using FreeBSD as email and web server - no desktop, no users, weak hardware - but it works since a long time.
I'm using mixing ports and packages for installing my applications. Because of the weak hardware I won't install everything over the ports, just the software for email (like sendmail, etc. and web server like apache, php-extensions, etc..)
I get a question, because I run into a lot of problems every time I'm doing updates:
After some times, there are ports sign as "vulnerable" for hacking - so I get something to do.
I do
Code:
cd /usr ports and
portsnap fetch update
or / and
pkg update
Then I check new versions with
pkg version -l "<"
or
pkg upgrade -n
I have try to update with
portupgrade -r abc
.. or every package it needs an update and when failportupgrade -a and the rest with
portupgrade -r abc.. or pkg install abc... until everything is new.
By the way, it take me sometimes days to solve that.[/U]
or with
pkg install abc
... for every package it needs update or when fail pkg install upgrade
Every time I got a lot of conflicts and every time I must work through my documentation from internet to reconfigure the eMail and webserver settings until they works again.
So, ..... Can I have packages and ports Installations at the same time? And how do I manged them without get conflicts.
Can I configure the package system that it don't install applications that I explicit install about the ports?
Thank you very much!
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