From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 9 07:44:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673F116A4DA for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 07:44:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA7F43D45 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 07:44:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.109]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J2400LSYLF27W80@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:42:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J2400AYOLF2G9C0@pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:42:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J2400GK7LF1T2W0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:42:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 39924 invoked from network); Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:42:32 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:42:32 +0000 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:42:31 -0700 From: Colin Percival To: FreeBSD Stable Message-id: <44B0B367.1020406@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Subject: FreeBSD 6.0->6.1 binary upgrade script X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:44:27 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear FreeBSD 6.0 users, Those of you who read my blog (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/) will have seen this already; but for those of you who don't: I have written an automatic script for performing binary FreeBSD 6.0 -> FreeBSD 6.1 upgrades. This script will install exactly the same files as are distributed on the ISO image, and it will attempt to automatically merge configuration file changes (in the very unlikely case that it cannot automatically merge changes, it will ask you to merge the changes for it). The script takes approximately 15 minutes, and typically downloads under 20MB of files and binary patches. Naturally, the cryptographic hashes of all the files are verified against values stored in the script, so as long as you trust the FreeBSD Security Officer (and if you don't, why are you running FreeBSD?), the process is entirely secure. The script can be obtained from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ and the SHA256 hash of the download is 29075fc5711e0b20d879c69d12bbe5414c1c56d597c8116da7acc0d291116d2f . Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEsLNnMt4ezdCTR/wRAmRUAKDQFOFxK3y58/vy0Vzx8sov8synWgCg4sYG UfDhAxNjWRq7+zawVvM8cp0= =3gBy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----