From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 02:52:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D1316A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A37443FD7 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.166] helo=localhost) by tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ABWiJ-0005Nv-NY for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:52:35 +0100 Received: from rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.165]) by localhost (scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 20621-02 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:52:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ABWiJ-0005Nm-A9 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:52:35 +0100 Received: (qmail 29188 invoked by uid 0); 20 Oct 2003 09:52:35 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.574281 secs); 20 Oct 2003 09:52:35 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.574281 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 20 Oct 2003 09:52:33 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20031020104723.02c5a420@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:52:29 +0100 To: Dmitry Morozovsky , Peter Pentchev From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20031020134059.K36677@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20031020061931.GE57130@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20031019190036.3426D16A4D7@hub.freebsd.org> <20031020061931.GE57130@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync vs installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:52:37 -0000 At 13:42 20/10/2003 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >Nope, because: >- security/freebsd-update does not handle ports at all >- it is only for security branches and so does not fit in the case of locally >patched system Local patches aren't a problem, actually -- regardless of what I may advertise, FreeBSD Update doesn't really track the security branches either: It tracks "release branches plus some local fixup patches" (the only user-visible change is that kernels are labeled as -SECURITY intead of -RELEASEpx). Of course, you'd need to build your own updates if you're doing this, but the code is all online and (reasonably) straightforward. Colin Percival