Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:17:44 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? Message-ID: <4166CBB8.1080003@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041008170424.GD19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEHEEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20041008162604.GB19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz> <20041008170424.GD19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: >: Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >: >: >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >: >: I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole >: >: host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD, >: >: and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have, at least >: >not >: >: where the good bits are. >: > >: >I wonder. Wouldn't that make keeping up-to-date a lot more difficult? >: > >: > >: >: Not necessarily. It wouldn't be too difficult at all to even roll their own >: release, with all their custom patches, or set up their own source >: repo with the patches in place and do cvsup et al from their own >: servers. There are lots of possibilities; the fact that I don't necessarily >: know what they all are doesn't negate the probability that they exist. > >I mean keeping their source synced with the 'official' source. > > And so did I, see release(7) among other things. Cvsup one machine from their local mirror of the "official" site, buildworld on it with their patches, make a release (or other strategy here) and feed it to their server farm ... I'd take a while for me to figure out how to do it, but I wouldn't doubt their ability to do so. Kevin Kinsey
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