jared r r spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i also ought to mention that in my scenario i've switched entirely
> to using -current snapshots for the OS (eg reboot and then upg with bsd.rd)
> and not building base from source at all. (no 'cd /usr/src; make build')
>
> my life is WAY BETTER since doing that
I can absolutely second that. Snapshots is the way to go for tracking
-current, unless of course you're actively involved in developing some
part of the system yourself and for that reason *need* to recompile
parts to see if it all fits. Going via the occasional snapshot
probably doesn't hurt then either, but others are better placed to
supply the details of that.
My general procedure is -
1) fetch installNN.iso and MD5
2) check that the md5 sums match
if match burn CD
else goto 1 ;; rarely happens, if it does, wait a little while
3) update source tree
4) run sysmerge
5) boot off cd, upgrade
6) go on doing whatever I was doing before 1)
Depending on random factors I've done the pkg_add -vu with a sensible
PKG_PATH either before or after the base system upgrade (and sometimes
during step 3, as a matter of fact). In the rare event that the
package upgrades do not all succeed, you get useful messages about
why, and as Jared points out upthread, the thing to do in those cases
us usually to wait until the packages have caught up.
- P
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