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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:18:39 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Karyl F. Stein" <xenon@freeport.xenos.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Core Binary Upgrades?
Message-ID:  <20010201161839.A75568@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010201142750.A14653@freeport.xenos.net>; from xenon@freeport.xenos.net on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:27:50PM -0500
References:  <20010201142750.A14653@freeport.xenos.net>

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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:27:50PM -0500, Karyl F. Stein wrote:
> 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?

Not at the present time. All you can do is do a binary upgrade to a
new snapshot which replaces the entire base system - except I don't
think 3.x snapshots are being produced any more by freebsd.org.

Kris

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