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From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Staying up to date with security patches
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On Friday 02 July 2010, Ed Flecko wrote:

> Since I will be doing a custom kernel at some point, I won't use
> freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead.

The alternative would be to just use the source code patches from the 
security-advisories mailing list. That way you don't have to rebuild 
the whole base system each time, though some of the patches will 
require the kernel to be rebuilt.

-- 
Mike Clarke