Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:44:49 -0400 From: Rail mail <railmail@gmail.com> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating issues Message-ID: <c35bdefa04081320444a10d55c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <411D86A3.8080704@makeworld.com> References: <c35bdefa04081320231721b91@mail.gmail.com> <411D86A3.8080704@makeworld.com>
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well I was thinking either I do binary updates or recompile updates. My first question started off with "can I get security fixes with out recompiling?". I knew about upgrade in sysinstall, but the word was that gets the release specified, not necessarily security fixes. So then I thought you have to recompile to get updates. But freebsd-update was then introduced to me. But It complained since we had to recompile the src for the release (5.1) to get certain features in the kernel. So I am still stuck with the question "can I get security fixes with out recompiling?". R. On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:27:31 -0500, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > > > Rail mail wrote: > > I have compiled kernel and now want to find easiest, safest way to > > upgrade a production machine. > > > > I'm trying to make a decision on to either A just always do a cvsup > > with RELENG_5_X and make world or B try to pull something together > > with freebsd-update. > > > > of course freebsd-update 1.4 gets upset since files were modified, due > > to src update and compile. > > I could be wrong but I thought the whole idea of FreeBSDUpdate is NOT to > mess with the source. I always thought that the before mentioned > updeated only the binaries. > > That being said, and if you did tamper with the source - then cvsup (to > me) is the proper course of action. > > -- > Best regards, > Chris > > Real programmers can do octal, hexadecimal and > binary math in their heads. >
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