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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:33:52 -0500, Chris Buechler <cmb@pfsense.org>
wrote:

> 
> Note there is a patch to add sloppy state tracking to FreeBSD 8.1,
> pfSense uses it, you can find the patches in the tools repo at
> rcs.pfsense.org. Of course using a kernel patch rules out using
> freebsd-update though.

Not the official path, but it is actually possible to build your own
freebsd-update server with your own distribution.
There is a nice article out there covering the whole process, but
unfortunately, it still didn't hit our articles collection.
I hope there will be someone able to work on it.

-- 
Kind regards
  Daniel