Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:07:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Message-ID: <19990526100733.B7630@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905260831130.80146-100000@guru.phone.net>; from Mike Meyer on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:48:55AM -0700 References: <374C0839.AD2EE3FC@newsguy.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905260831130.80146-100000@guru.phone.net>
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> I'm not familiar with service packs. However, I can certainly tell the > difference between doing a "make world" and installing a patch from > Sun. The patch doesn't change every system binary. However, with FreeBSD, a future patch will not undo the patch I just installed. Sun has a history of "dueling" patches when a system binary has two unrelated problems with it. Patch 1 will fix problem 1, and when you install patch 2 to fix problem 2 -- guess what! Patch 2 doesn't include the fix for problem 1. > and you don't necessarily have to reboot the system as part of the > process. But since you don't know if what was patched was something only read at startup, you always need to reboot a Sun after patching. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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