From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 17:25:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC6E16A469 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:25:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10A013C469 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:25:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so967543ugf for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.170.17 with SMTP id s17mr1192639hue.1190049937972; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.132.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm4701545hub.2007.09.17.10.25.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obelix.home.rakhesh.com (obelix.home.rakhesh.com [192.168.17.13]) by smtp.home.rakhesh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915D61140B for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:26 +0400 (GST) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:26 +0400 (GST) X-X-Sender: rakhesh@obelix.home.rakhesh.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070917205857.A56089@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> X-Blog: http://rakhesh.com/ X-Notes: http://rakhesh.net/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Rakhesh Sasidharan Subject: Clarification on updating FreeBSD through csup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:25:41 -0000 Hi there! Just seeking a clarification on keeping FreeBSD up-to-date through csup. I am on FreeBSD 6.2 and want to keep up-to-date for security patches etc. I understand I can use csup to follow the RELENG_62 branch. After the sources are downloaded, do I have to follow all the steps outlined in this (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html) handbook document? I can understand building and installing world and kernel, but would I have to reboot to single user and do the mergemaster stuff too? I *think* I might not have to do mergemaster coz security updates shouldn't have changes in the /etc files and so there'd be no need for merging files. And I *think* I might have to reboot depending on whether I use the stuff being affected or not ... But I'd like a clarify from more knowledgeable folks nevertheless. :) Also, would the "make buildworld installworld" part take a long time? Or through the magic of "make" it just compiles the stuff that's getting updated (and stuff that requires on this)? TIA, - Rakhesh http://rakhesh.net/