From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 13:39:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9EB37B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:39:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f11LbCi14692; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:37:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <012901c08c98$5ae8fcb0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Karyl F. Stein" , References: <20010201142750.A14653@freeport.xenos.net> Subject: Re: Core Binary Upgrades? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:45:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there a way to apply updates to core pieces without building from source? I > have a 3.5.1-RELEASE system that has a slow processor and not much disk space. I > want to be able to track some STABLE changes like the recent identd update, but I > I don't want to have to compile from source. Is this possible? It is possible, but so far nobody has come forth with hardware resources to make the creation of binary patch sets available. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message