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I'm amazed that it was so difficult to update the FreeBSD base
system.  I just edited /etc/make.conf, then:

    cd /usr/src
    make update         # may take long, Internet connection
    make buildworld     # 2 hours?
    shutdown now        # go to single-user mode
    make buildkernel
    make installkernel
    make installworld
    reboot

After this, you can frob /etc as described in the manual.  Mergemaster
is your friend, presumably.

I think this is all explained in /usr/src/UPDATING, too.

I think there is actually an Emacs keymap for the FreeBSD console,
isn't there?  Just like the one for Linux where you have two Ctrl keys
on the left hand side?

As to information about the ports installed: yes, maybe there isn't
much.  I mostly did `pkg_info -I' and then grepped the output.  Very
low-tech stuff.

But maybe I was just lucky to have circumvented all the pitfalls?  It
seems that I am that way sometimes.  Don't know why.  Others discover
plenty of bugs, for me it just works.  Viz, Emacs 20.2 running in a
Latin-1 locale and the infamous \201 characters -- I didn't have too
many problems with those.

kai
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