From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 18:44:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.org (adsl-64-169-104-72.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AD837B699 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:44:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76475BA2B4; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:45:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:45:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alexei Betin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the way freebsd to be patched is sick Message-ID: <20010130184508.H54217@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <006f01c08ab3$8fa35900$4ac08dd5@belcom.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <006f01c08ab3$8fa35900$4ac08dd5@belcom.ru>; from betin@belcom.ru on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:55:37PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:55:37PM +0300, Alexei Betin wrote: > I don't want to start a flame, but... >=20 > whoes that crazy idea to patch os by recompiling it? for many > reasons I don't want to have compiler and source tree installed on > my servers. I don't want to wait while it's being recompiled for > several hours just for purpose of new `bind` to be installed. I > don't want to hold my breath seing how freshly compiled os restarts > on a production system... Sorry, a binary patch system requires hardware resources, code and ongoing maintenance which no-one in the FreeBSD community has so far provided. Unless you can help, you're stuck with what we have. Kris --+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6d3w0Wry0BWjoQKURAjseAKDXLCuyv/GuXqVaQgfx/ewO1uDbYQCbBk7Y xetnQRu//Dv4DIwsP+qOPyo= =h/47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message