Re: Keeping Freebsd 11.2 PPC up to date

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:18:21AM -0600, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:09:52 +0000
> Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:50:43PM +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> > > I'm about to put a freebsd server in production. I've installed
> > > 11.2-RELEASE from cd. I would like to know how am I supposed to
> > > keep it up-to-date, at least security wise: "svn info /usr/src"
> > > issues:
> > > 
> > > svn: E155007: '/usr/src' is not a working copy
> > 
> > That's probably because you've selected "src" distset to be unpacked
> > during the installation.  Don't do that, instead, check it out with
> > svnline(1) if you plan to track it and/or build world from it:
> > 
> > svnline co
> > svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/<branch-you-want-to-track> /usr/src
> 
> svnlite here :)

Holy shit, I've managed to mistype that twice!  Really need to check
what's going on with my brain/muscle memory!  I also often mistype
iconv(1) as "iconf" but that's probably due to plethora of <foo>conf[ig]
stuff.

> > Alternatively, you might want to chase binary updates; in this case,
> > refer to freebsd-update(8).
> 
> Unfortunately, freebsd-update doesn't work for powerpc, being Tier2
> arch.

Oh, I didn't know that, that's quite sad. :(

./danfe
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