Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:25:22 -0500 (EST) From: "wjm@ciberlynx.net" <wjm@tiger.ciberlynx.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Alexei Betin <betin@belcom.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: the way freebsd to be patched is sick Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101311200490.16444-100000@tiger.ciberlynx.net> In-Reply-To: <00b701c08b52$a4c49660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Alexei, > > I'm sorry you don't like the way that the Open > Source community does things. I would suggest that > if you don't care to get source patches that you pay > the $1000 per year per server to BSDi to put your > servers under a FreeBSD service contract. I'm quite > sure that if you do this that BSDi will be more than > happy to supply you with all the binary patches that > you want. > > Besides that, the BSDi service contract is a bargain > at $1K per server, compared to a service contract > on anyone else's stuff, be it Microsoft, or Sun or > whatever. > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alexei Betin > > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:56 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: the way freebsd to be patched is sick > > > > > > I don't want to start a flame, but... > > > > 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... > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Mr.Betin, Might I suggest you go strait to the source isc.org, grab yourself the desired release source and build it to your likings? Greg Lehey has an excellent book "Porting Unix Software" by O'Reilly Books that'll certainly answer the most difficult of questions. This should offer some help as well: http://www.nominum.com/resources/faqs/bind-faq.html#install To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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