From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 27 15:56:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 AA82916A50D for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:56:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A27044465 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:04:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5RF3oJ4099877; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:03:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060627100107.02556aa0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:03:40 -0500 To: AB , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20060627143120.84623.qmail@web32512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060627143120.84623.qmail@web32512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: New install, rebuilding world 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, 27 Jun 2006 15:56:46 -0000 Read the Makefile in /usr/src, and UPDATING in /usr/src as well. What you will want to do is track the security branch, and subscribe to the security list to get any reports of issues. If an issue arises, you can choose to cvsup and rebuild, or not. If the issue is not in a subsystem you use, you can ignore it. -Derek At 09:31 AM 6/27/2006, AB wrote: >I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been reading alot in the >Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding >world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking >for. > >I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that >it's optimized for my hardware, but I'd rather not >track -Stable and have to rebuild a whole slew of >stuff every few days. > >Can someone give me some advice (or point me to some >documentation) on recompiling the -Release6.1 and then >doing light maintenance (bug fixes, security updates) >afterwards? > > >Thanks, >Adam > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.