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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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Subject: Re: how to keep a freebsd 6.0 release up to date
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Romeo Theriault wrote:

> Hi, I'm interested in how to keep a freebsd 6.0 release up to date 
> without having to follow the stable branch. All of the security 
> advisories have instructions on how to patch systems up to 5.4, even 
> though 6.0 is listed as affected also.  I've read that 
> 'freebsd-update' will do this, is this correct?  But if I don't want 
> to use 'freebsd-update' is there a security branch I can follow with 
> CVSup.

Yes. In your supfile for system updates, put
*default tag=RELENG_6_0

Then, when you cvsup, you will get 6.0-RELEASE with the latest security 
updates.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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