New to FreeBSD and I have several questions.
Hello. I'm interested in trying out FreeBSD but even after reading the manual and relevant documentation I'm still very confused about some things.
1. I understand there's different levels of packages you can install. Releases, stable and current. I'd like to know how I would go about changing to the stable branch. I honestly couldn't find information on this that helped me. Would I have to rebuild the system if I switched to the stable packages branch? 2. The pkg_add tool is used to fetch and install packages but it doesn't seem to offer any way of checking for updates. I realize that the release branch NEVER gets updated but I previously said I'd like to switch to the "stable" branch. 3. Is there a better tool for working with FreeBSD packages in general? Something like pacman for Arch? It's really a joy to use so I would like to see if something similar exists for this. 4. What exactly does freebsd_update do? When I run that and get the latest release it updates the FreeBSD kernel right? |
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Stable is "Stable Development", kinda similar to Debian Testing (for want of a better definition) - this will become FreeBSD 9.1, 9.2 etc Current is the "Bleeding Edge" branch were things can be a bit unstable and is intended for a major point release - FreeBSD 10.0 Quote:
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Actually, re-read the whole of chapter 25 of the handbook - it takes time for it to sink in... |
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Check this for more info about PKGNG: http://www.mebsd.com/make-build-your...e-manager.html Quote:
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Welcome, feel free to ask more questions.
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Thank you very much for the response! I'm slowly still figuring it out. That link was super helpful and it explained a lot. It seems as though it's not too easy to deal with packages yet. I'll be looking into this PKGNG thing right now.
Thanks again. |
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