Upgrading FreeBSD

Upgrading FreeBSD

Concept
This document started as a follow up to
The Ultimate Multimedia Server Guide
and how to go about keeping your server  up to date and patched with the latest O/S patches and security patches. The other reason for this document was to try and create an easy to follow update guide for the not so Unix savvy users that visit my website from time to time. My first time trying to upgrade FreeBSD from sources went well but trying to understand and piece together all the other documentation was more of a daunting task than actually upgrading.


General Information
This guide will lead you through bringing your FreeBSD server up to date to ensure that you get the most entertainment pleasure from your server. Before embarking on this journey I would highly recommend reading this documentation in it's fullest before executing any of it. This guide will require time, patience and attention to detail. This is more time consuming than it is difficult.
You will also notice Blue Font type and Underlined type used throughout this documentation. These are actual www links provided to make finding things a bit easier for you.
Requirements
1)      Base install of FreeBSD and Ports, preferably FreeBSD 6 as it is the latest stable production release at the time of this document.
2)      Some sort of Internet connectivity either broadband or some sort of business connectivity like a t1. The faster your downstream connectivity of course the shorter length of time it will take for you to download the sources.
3)      Your favorite text editor. I prefer VI but there are others like Emacs and Pico.
4)      sudo or root access to your server and also console access.
5)      And last but not least a little time and patience.

Installation
The tools that are required for this project can be easily installed from our ports tree. Most tools needed are already installed but there are a couple that we will use to make things a little easier on us and also to automate this process for future use. The main choice of tool for this process is CVS, if you are   interested in what is really happening take 10 minutes of your spare time to read
The FreeBSD Handbook CVS section.
The first thing we will do is install cvsup-without-gui, you may want to install just cvsup if you have installed X11 on your server. I prefer not to have the overhead of X11 or any type of gui running on my servers.
#cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
# make install clean
The above will install cvsup-without-gui and clean the source files out of your ports tree to preserve disk space. CVS will also prompt you asking if it should run MAKE SURE to answer NO to this at this time. There is a tad bit more work to do before running this.
Next we will install a tool that with a little script of my own will help make choosing the fastest cvs server on the Internet for us so that downloading the sources take as little time as possible.

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