Upgrade ports is easy, using portupgrade. Even portupgrade can upgrade it’s own program 🙂 The problem come with error message ‘xxxx already installed’, how to overcome this problem? Answer: read the guide 🙂 kongja# portupgrade p5-libwww-5.79_1 —> Upgrading ‘p5-libwww-5.79_1’ to ‘p5-libwww-5.803’ (www/p5-libwww) —> Building ‘/usr/ports/www/p5-libwww’ ===> Cleaning for p5-Compress-Zlib-1.33 bla…bla..bla ===> Checking if net/p5-URI already […]

After update ports collection and find old port, need to upgrade. I found that port status : ‘Ignored‘ bow# portversion -v | grep ‘

After fresh install freebsd 4.11 in old machine I need to update it right away since many security advisories. Quick way to do that using freebsd-update : Installing freebsd-update dns# whereis freebsd-update freebsd-update: /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update dns# cd /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update/ dns# make install ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found => freebsd-update-1.6.tar.gz doesn’t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. […]

Some thought on configuration and install list for new FreeBSD server : 1. Install minimal (pick minimal or developer) 2. Configure ethernet card defaultrouter=”10.10.12.9″ gateway_enable=”YES” hostname=”alamster.rasyid.net” ifconfig_em0=”inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0″ ifconfig_em0_alias0=”inet 10.10.12.1 netmask 255.255.255.240″ 3. Time synchronize -bash-2.05b$ rdate time.nist.gov

FreeBSD supports three methods for installing program : Ports Package Source Every method has its advantage and disadvantage : Ports, till time of writing, already reach 16984, wow. Supports many option, my favorite since beginning :-). Simply type make install . Package, for time consuming ports like cvsup I prefer use package for its small […]