From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 18 04:45:05 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 4C45116A421 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCA413C48E for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so1315063nfb for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.159.7 with SMTP id h7mr1744379hue.1190090702898; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.132.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 38sm5168521hua.2007.09.17.21.45.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:45:01 -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 42A6F1140B; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:38:53 +0400 (GST) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:38:53 +0400 (GST) X-X-Sender: rakhesh@obelix.home.rakhesh.com To: Daniel Bye In-Reply-To: <20070917191406.GA30248@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Message-ID: <20070918082903.W8297@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070917205857.A56089@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20070917191406.GA30248@catflap.slightlystrange.org> 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 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:45:05 -0000 Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:24:26PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: >> 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? > > If you follow the complete rebuild instructions, yes. If you follow the > instructions for *patching* the system as given in the relevant security > notifications, then only if those instructions say so. You do subscribe > to security-notifications@, don't you? ;-) Err, not yet but I just did after seeing your mail. :) Now that you mention, yes, I had seen those security notifications and they mention what to do by way of patching. Great! That's better. >> 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. > > Sometimes, the security fixes involve changes under /etc. The recent > jails error comes to mind, as a case in point. Thanks for the example. > I'd suggest trying it out on a non-critical system, so as to familiarise > yourself with the procedure. You'll be glad you did. That's the plan. I wanted to try this method out (a) to familiarize myself with it, and (b) I understand if one builds custom kernels then the freebsd-update method won't work ... I've csuped the RELENG_62 branch, now I'll check out the patches and try applying them. Thanks for your inputs! - Rakhesh http://rakhesh.net/