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Topic: Updating FreeBSD ports

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Hello Zhang & community,

I've recently migrated to iRedMail on FreeBSD and I'm very happy with it.

There is one question I can't find information about:
After installing iRedMail, how are the ports supposed to be kept updated?

For instance, jailaudit reports that the installed version of Apache is vulnerable. Personally I'm not worried since I'm using Nginx but in general what is the recommended procedure to update dependencies without breaking iRedMail?

I'm assuming 'pkg upgrade' is not a good choice since iRedMail probably compiles it's dependencies with options.

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Updating FreeBSD ports

corv wrote:

After installing iRedMail, how are the ports supposed to be kept updated?

iRedMail just installs some ports/packages for you, after installation, it's a administration job left to you. So just use 'pkg' or other port management tool to keep ports up to date.

corv wrote:

I'm assuming 'pkg upgrade' is not a good choice since iRedMail probably compiles it's dependencies with options.

iRedMail just installs ports from official ports tree, except iRedAPD (/opt/iredapd) and iRedAdmin (/usr/local/www/iredadmin).

*) iRedAPD is a Python program, if you stay with Python 2.x, it should work.
*) iRedAdmin relies on Apache/mod_wsgi or Nginx/uwsgi.

Updating ports regularly should be fine for them.

3 Reply by corv

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Re: Updating FreeBSD ports

Thank you for the quick reply, that clears it up well.