Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:37:51 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Buchanan <brian@wasteland.calbbs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Updating without downloading the entire distribution Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970208232319.3234A-100000@wasteland.calbbs.com>
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I just upgraded my 2.1.0-RELEASE system to 2.2-GAMMA-970205 by FTPing the bin, src, manpages, etc. distributions from ftp.freebsd.org, booting from the 2.2 install floppy, and telling it to install from the existing filesystem. The upgrade went pretty smoothly, except that I got some strange warnings on reboot due to /etc/sysconfig not containing certain new options. (Perhaps the upgrade process could append any options present in the new sysconfig file to the old one?) Two questions... 1) Do I need to rebuild any of my old non-system binaries to protect myself from the stack overwite bug being discussed on the freebsd-security list? 2) How do I keep up-to-date with version 2.2 without downloading 10s of megabytes every day over my 28.8kbps PPP link? Can I just grab the sources changed since my last update and recompile them? Thanks for your time, Brian
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