From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 18:02:38 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 A732716A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:02:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B4443D46 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:02:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so384642nzd for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:02:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LKQml+xyYgIjEPyKKtZ8Rd16DT87ndHfpCZ3d4+Wf9coA9HbMYhQTqj46rYshkpwgiVREtbMpObEn2clJab/M2lZWFmTp8KT1+SMH1SfETeXhQW/vdy1v0IBA4+sduUtM8KX1paB8y33gryhlVQt1syQbPF0rp/L6tD1Y9XEUv8= Received: by 10.36.22.10 with SMTP id 10mr2679565nzv; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:02:37 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: David Kirchner In-Reply-To: <35c231bf0510131016x7ae550e7p2ca3a3c0b838df3f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F8316489986467895@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> <35c231bf0510121155h55f8fae8r93fb25a9f01ca3f4@mail.gmail.com> <35c231bf0510121317s4fac9a7bq545639d169db06eb@mail.gmail.com> <35c231bf0510131016x7ae550e7p2ca3a3c0b838df3f@mail.gmail.com> 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: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:02:38 -0000 On 10/13/05, David Kirchner wrote: > On 10/12/05, David Kirchner wrote: > > On 10/12/05, Andrew P. wrote: > > > That's just not true. Cvsupping to something like > > > RELENG_5_4 will do exactly the same thing as > > > a patch, only it's the hassle-free way. You see > > > a sec-advisory, you type "cvsup -g -L 2 mysup" > > > recompile what's suggested in the advisory, or > > > the whole world - and you're done. > > > > cvsupping to RELENG_5_4 will include all of those patches, not just > > the one you just read about. So if you had to avoid installing a patch > > for some reason (you had a local solution, or something, it happens > > sometimes) then you need to avoid using the cvsup method. > > I just tried this again to verify. cvsuping to RELENG_5_4 gives you > 5.4-STABLE, which includes _many_ things not found in the > 5.4-RELEASE-p?? branch. I'm not saying people shouldn't upgrade to > 5.4-STABLE (although I do think efforts should be directed towards > including bugfixes in the 5.4-RELEASE-p?? branch) but that they should > be aware that cvsup'ing to RELENG_5_4 will give them a very different > result to patching the specific security advisory patches. > I don't see a single reason why I shouldn't ask the BSD daemon to flame the hell out of you :-) Try again to verify. And again. Again then. And if you think that 5 times are enough, you might be right. But they are not enough for you. Currently: RELENG_5_4 =3D 5.4-RELEASE-p* RELENG_5 =3D 5.4-STABLE What's so hard about remembering that? My sense of humour is depleted, honestly. Browse through the CVS if you don't believe your eyes: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh