Category Archives: FreeBSD

As yet untested over any period of time. portmaster –check-depends portmaster –check-port-dbdir portmaster -s portmaster -y –clean-distfiles

Update portstree! portsnap fetch update Portmaster users: portmaster -o lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.14 Conservative: (tried this, didn’t see to make Amavis work though) portmaster -D p5- Comprehensive (but perhaps overkill): (tried this, but took ages due to the constant OPTION menus popipng up portmaster -r perl5- Comprehensive and quite (but perhaps overkill): (worked like a charme, took… Read More »

# portmaster -DaG ===>>> Starting check of installed ports for available updates ===>>> The devel/gio-fam-backend port moved to devel/glib20 ===>>> Reason: Obsoleted by new functionality in glib20 ===>>> Launching child to reinstall gio-fam-backend-2.34.3 ===>>> All >> gio-fam-backend-2.34.3 (1/1) ===>>> The devel/gio-fam-backend port moved to devel/glib20 ===>>> Reason: Obsoleted by new functionality in glib20 ===>>> Currently… Read More »

PART I. Keeping the FreeBSD base system up-to-date Some facts about FreeBSD’s base system: — once RELEASE is completed, there are only security fixes, there are no bug fixes — bugs in STABLE tree are fixed — security issues are also fixed in STABLE — the RELEASE branch allows to use binary updates via freebsd-update… Read More »

Virtualizing a FreeBSD server is common place. Knowing how to install VMWare Tools on a FreeBSD server without X11 is going to be extremely important. This article will provide the steps. Lets get started. Step 1 – Install FreeBSD as VMWare Guest. Instructions for installing FreeBSD 9 are found here: How do I install FreeBSD 9?… Read More »

Install FreeBSD as per your requirements. Update! Update 1: freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install portsnap fetch portsnap extract or freebsd-update fetch install portsnap fetch extract Update 2: As you can read in the comments, it is good to know that you only have to “extract” the ports tree once and for every subsequent update to the… Read More »