From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 07:50:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F3816A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9A543FAF for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alden.pierre@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([138.89.12.247]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031020145001.RJTI602.out002.verizon.net@verizon.net>; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:50:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3F92CE3E.9030402@verizon.net> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:47:42 -0400 From: Alden Louis-Pierre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030704 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Lillico References: <3F91BDB1.7020301@verizon.net> <20031019130325.A87394@grond.sourballs.org> <3F91D526.9050806@verizon.net> <20031020075738.GA19704@thor.grumpygoblin.com> In-Reply-To: <20031020075738.GA19704@thor.grumpygoblin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [138.89.12.247] at Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:50:01 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup supfile question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:50:03 -0000 Graham Lillico wrote: >On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:04:54PM -0400, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > > >> So running my sample CVSup supfile would not patch my system for the >>security advisories from SA-03:08 - SA-0318(as of 10/19/03)? I'm under >>the impression this supfile would take care of security advisories, >>being that I'm updating the /usr directory. For everything to take in >>effect I must build and install my kernel as well? I'm looking through >>the FreeBSD Handbook and I don't >>see this extra step. >> >>Thank You >>Alden Louis-Pierre >> >> > >If you are wanting to do binary updates then "FreeBSD Update" might be what >your looking for. It can be found at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ > >Grez.. > > Thanks everyone for your help. I manage to do a source upgrade. I did not know if it would be this involved. Updating the source was simple, but a little tedious. I never thought I would be compiling so many different things, which made me a little hesitate at first. Graham, thank for the info on the binary update. This is exactly the kind of tool I wanted. For a second there I thought my supfile would do a binary update. Thank You Alden Louis-Pierre