From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 5 21:47:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51B337B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2674143EC5 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.138] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A95528C20054; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:44:53 -0600 Message-ID: <04d001c29cea$951ecfe0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Aristedes Maniatis" Cc: References: <5FCDFD3A-08CB-11D7-86ED-003065A9024A@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: update strategies Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:44:41 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aristedes Maniatis" To: Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: update strategies > It appears that there are two strategies for updating FreeBSD systems: > > * cvsup the latest STABLE release on a regular basis > * get the CD release (4.6, 4.7, etc) snapshots periodically and update > from that either with binaries or compiled from source > > I am curious about what most people do. For a server where stability is > important, I obviously don't want to buildworld once a week, but it is > also important to keep on top of bug reports and security holes. I cvsup the source 3x/week via cron, ports slightly less often, and buildworld when I feel like it (which isn't TOO often) or when there's a security announcement made. My servers run at low loads, typically, so -STABLE works just great on my "production" servers. I'm looking into portupgrade to update ports, it seems like it's going to be cool! >I'm having some problems getting the kernel to compile (errors in >"/usr/src/sys/modules/linux") and I suspect that the problem may be due >to this lack of understanding about which source trees live where. Usual suggestion is re-cvsup and try again. Sounds like you could have left something out of your kernel config file, though, with this error. G'luck, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message