From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 17:27:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308E416A422 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:27:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpkirchner@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B243A43D46 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpkirchner@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t13so108007wxc for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:27:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fjgYUHWZqe6f7D5/py5WDljtlAHx4q9YUNenTHUgjCLBabnS9y7DJkgusK9Ez0zxbGrN75IfHv9QZ3449xDn72xMm4tbjVQ//AcEuyjU25HDnKcF/scvRMOv8ixfZH1ggGtlhIuBDlISaiufzj6DArXv3naUcPElbCprd5Wv0Zg= Received: by 10.70.103.15 with SMTP id a15mr251850wxc; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.104.20 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35c231bf0510121027h73c57cafp975d102e4954c5c1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:27:23 -0700 From: David Kirchner Sender: dpkirchner@gmail.com To: "Andrew P." In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998646786A@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Cody Holland Subject: Re: Patch vs. Upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:27:24 -0000 On 10/12/05, Andrew P. wrote: > If things are not too tight on yout hard drive, > consider the cvsup way. It's very easy - and > very clearly described in the handbook. I've seen many people say this, but I suspect they haven't tried looking for information on patching using cvsup in the handbook. It's not easy to find. I think we're doing a disservice to the community directing people there without pointing them to a specific page (it is a 4MB document). The notes on using cvsup to keep your system up to date are under the section header "Cutting Edge". I dunno about you, but when it comes to security patchse, I'd like to see them as easy as possible, not something as elite as that. Maybe that's just a poor choice of a title, though. The only specifically correct information -- using 'standard-supfile' -- appears under the header "Using FreeBSD-CURRENT", a section most newbies certainly ought to avoid unless they want to run bleeding-edge may-not-compile-at-all code. In any case, a direct link to the information on how to keep your system up to date is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht= ml#AEN27683 You only need to read paragraph 2a -- the rest has to do with -CURRENT and other crufty methods of getting source. Then you can skip to: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html and read that and the next page. That should be enough to get you going with the latest -RELEASE-pNN patch level.