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Lovmy

Hello,

Sorry I don't speak English very well. I want to know just the best way to fully update FreeBSD.

If I do:

For kernel:

Code: 
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

and rebuild my kernel (no GENERIC kernel)

For ports tree:

Code: 
portsnap fetch extract
portsnap fetch update

And for precompiled software:

pkg update && pkg upgrade

is it enough?

Best Regards.
 
Thank you for your reply but there are some things I do not understand, I read that there were 3 parts in FreeBSD, the kernel, the world and ports. For ports, if I use pkg I will update by

pkg update
pkg upgrade

If I use the ports tree I made by

portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
portsnap update

But for the world and the kernel?

I use

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install for world and then I'm left has recompile the kernel ?

Best regards.
 
A few comments about the examples you provided:

Lovmy said:
I read that there were 3 parts in FreeBSD, the kernel, the world and ports. For ports, if I use pkg I will update by

pkg update
pkg upgrade
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Although explicit use of # pkg-update isn't really wrong it is not needed either because pkg-upgrade(8) will always update the repositories automatically. Unless you're using the -U (or --no-repo-update) option.

Lovmy said:
If I use the ports tree I made by

portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
portsnap update
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No, this is wrong. That is: it will have the same result but you'd be wasting time.

See portsnap(8). The extract command will do just that: extract and overwrite your entire ports tree. And trust me: that will take a while to do. Although the end result is what you'd wanted (an updated ports tree) the time spend isn't much fun.

The update command is all you need. This will only update the ports which have a new version. So, don't use all those commands together, but instead just use: # portsnap fetch update when updating your ports tree.

Lovmy said:
But for the world and the kernel?

I use

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install for world and then I'm left has recompile the kernel ?
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See freebsd-update.conf(8) and freebsd-update(8).

This will update your system, depending on your settings in /etc/freebsd-update.conf it will also update / replace your kernel with a GENERIC version. So after running that command you'd need to recompile the kernel yourself.
 
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