From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 17:15:37 2008 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 DC9FA106566C for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EDB8FC25 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 58so327829wri.8 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:15:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=0/7HRKC7T0xVLkSIeW+oCI3c6BFbXO0MOsdaf0ELZys=; b=Pug4RZYGLhBEJnckYay4RrH8483hgYvT3dpHy42zIgZd2KHkSptk4FRBJWcVhci/CXCddQbOxE4KBRs+2XKY9bSh9CiAd22mz+wp7ifQZKzWk1ovJmrGMEnvaxYsHfZ557NHUL6AFUPVrpELTkKjh+lSs+JFxSdwlzZuOMnt7Ek= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vv+26jeqbyTRfhesDzIvEr/QndHpSOXl/FxqqtK11I1vDqyESbJw9kcHC1b+nRwBIumoh0/41TWVBPhMJ9el2Mf5aCdzU88weGKzExY++AYXjkKOoLIs57XzQkoHv+MKRE4n61scKapvKhhlDIHkZrqLhSXl9X1JXvWo4yJaSo8= Received: by 10.141.197.8 with SMTP id z8mr117866rvp.285.1204562862310; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:47:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.28.10 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:47:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <92bcbda50803030847l384a2605vced5422451625920@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:47:42 +0100 From: "n j" To: "chris@chrismaness.com" In-Reply-To: <1562.163.150.112.33.1204560652.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1562.163.150.112.33.1204560652.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update and mergemaster 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, 03 Mar 2008 17:15:38 -0000 > Who is working on FreeBSD update? Maybe I can make a feature request. Or, even better, make a patch - FreeBSD is open source, everyone can work on it! Sorry, couldn't resist :-). I know the above remark is generally not very helpful for an average user; however, I was surprised to find out that the freebsd-update(8) was actually a shell script - i.e. modifying it doesn't require one to be a hard-core C hacker. freebsd-update(8) is part of the base system and is, as such, in the source tree that is freely available from the CVS repository (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/). Being a shell script also means you can go directly to /usr/sbin/freebsd-update and edit it in-place. The author, to the best of my knowledge, is Colin Percival, the current FreeBSD security officer (http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#sec). Regards, -- Nino