From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 03:41:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 081109DD for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:41:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B052E3B for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:41:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 36274535 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:41:53 +0700 Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s7A3fruf075394 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:41:53 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s7A3fqxR075393 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:41:52 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:41:52 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2 Message-ID: <20140810034152.GA75345@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53E68BD0.5090209@my.hennepintech.edu> Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:41:57 -0000 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