Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:41:52 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2 Message-ID: <20140810034152.GA75345@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <53E68BD0.5090209@my.hennepintech.edu> References: <4CA0146F-BD4E-4613-9050-DB0C1FDB7EA4@lafn.org> <53C8B7A2.1060504@my.hennepintech.edu> <494D0D9E-ED60-4187-ABCF-8E18CDEAB911@lafn.org> <53C8E2A7.6000000@my.hennepintech.edu> <20140809150815.GA65785@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53E68BD0.5090209@my.hennepintech.edu>
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Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2014.08.09 10:08, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Andrew Berg wrote:
> >> The best thing to do since you need to build world and kernel is to
> >> just use svn and do all updates via source. freebsd-update does
> >> nothing for you. Grab a completely new copy of the 9.3 source with
> >> svn and then build and install it.
> >
> > Would it be safe to use freebsd-update to install binary security patches
> > after upgrading a system from source?
> Since you have your own changes, no.
I don't have any own changes other than a custom kernel sometimes.
> IIRC, there are instructions in the
> announcements for building only what has changed so that you do not need to
> rebuild the entire world and kernel.
Not all my boxes have enough resources (CPU or disk space or network
bandwidth for NFS mounting /usr/{src,obj}) to build world from source.
So I find freebsd-update very useful.
And the instructions in the announcements mostly end up with "and
recomile your operating system :)"
--
Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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