Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:07:42 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices? Message-ID: <BCBB1077-81BC-11D8-9A00-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <38632096-81B7-11D8-A410-00039352A78A@calarts.edu> References: <38632096-81B7-11D8-A410-00039352A78A@calarts.edu>
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On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: > I don't want to build "all" sources when I just need these on my > system (bin, man, and crypto). The same selection I use from a new > install from /stand/sysinstall. Is that possible? If you look at /etc/default/make.conf for a bunch of components starting with NO_, you can set those to get something close to what you've asked for. > It seem the "makeworld" process is the only way to keep the system > patched. Someone (Colin Percival?) has a binary updating system available for FreeBSD which might be easier for you to use. > If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the > mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I > want? (see above) Generally one can ignore doing the mergemaster simply for a security patch. Yes, you can use CVSup to update your local sources with the fix instead of applying a patch by hand. Using a tag of RELENG_4 (aka STABLE) or RELENG_4_9 (aka security branch of 4.9) should be what you want. -- -Chuck
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