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Originally Posted by cbrace
This HowTo is very helpful, thanks. One question:
If you are running STABLE, how then do you upgrade to a future version of FreeBSD? If you periodically need to recompile the base system from source, doesn't that significantly lessen the advantages of using packages?
Is there any way to keep a FreeBSD server up to date (both base and userland) using only binaries?
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I track
freshbsd.org site to see which commits are MFC to STABLE, if I find something interesting then I make these:
Code:
# svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src
# make buildworld kernel KODIR=/boot/test
# nextboot -k test
# ...
I do that about every 2-3 months, but ding it just to have latest system is not a boog idea, recently I updated to latest 9.1-STALE and I lost ability to pass USB devices into Virtualbox
I do not know any binary method out of the box, You may of course setup Your
freebsd-update server and update from it binary using
freebsd-update:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articl...update-server/