From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 17:17:50 2004 Return-Path: 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 2A79916A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:17:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA6443D39 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:14:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4166CBB8.1080003@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:17:44 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick References: <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> <20041008162604.GB19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz> <20041008170424.GD19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041008170424.GD19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2004 17:14:12.0345 (UTC) FILETIME=[3B1A2E90:01C4AD5A] cc: Gerard Samuel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Ted Mittelstaedt cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:17:50 -0000 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