Greetings, I synced up both my source and ports trees 4 days ago and as I haven't built a kernel for about 5mos. coupled with the security issues that have developed since then. I want to (re)build both kernel and and already installed ports on my SMP box. So before I do it, I wanted to know if there have been any issues with the source that I should know about before I "take the plunge". Thank you for all your time and consideration. --Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was brought to you by the H.R. Communications Corp., Webmail Internet Messaging System. ----------------------------------------------------------------
At 05:14 PM 24/02/2006, Chris wrote:>Greetings, >I synced up both my source and ports trees 4 days ago and as I haven't >built a kernel for about 5mos. coupled with the security issues that have >developed since then. I want to (re)build both kernel and and >already installed >ports on my SMP box. So before I do it, I wanted to know if there >have been any >issues with the source that I should know about before I "take the plunge".A lot has changed since 4 months, and things have been quite stable on my SMP RELENG_6 boxes. However, perhaps you are using some hardware that others are not using and perhaps you might run into some issues as a result. Post a dmesg to show what gear you are running. ---Mike
Chris wrote:> Greetings, I synced up both my source and ports trees 4 days ago and as I > haven't built a kernel for about 5mos. coupled with the security issues > that have developed since then. I want to (re)build both kernel and and > already installed ports on my SMP box.First off, It's important to note that with FreeBSD you should not just build and install a new kernel every N months. FreeBSD is a complete operating system, so it's important that you follow the procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING to keep your whole system up to date. As for ports, you really only need to update the ports that have newer versions in the tree. Within a major release version number (like the 6.x branch) it's hardly ever necessary to rebuild all your ports. If I may, I'd like to suggest that you take a look at ports/sysutils/portmaster, which is a script I wrote to help make managing your installed ports easier. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection