From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 30 07:08:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B890016A417 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892B113C457 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so2410601wxd for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr7142978wxz.1191136098214; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.131.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i10sm6017053wxd.2007.09.30.00.08.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obelix.home.rakhesh.com (obelix.home.rakhesh.com [192.168.17.13]) by smtp.home.rakhesh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574D41140D; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:05:50 +0400 (GST) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:05:50 +0400 (GST) X-X-Sender: rakhesh@obelix.home.rakhesh.com To: Bill Stwalley In-Reply-To: <687f2b920709262347l23b3d6cfv3969ea804f4963c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070930110108.T79156@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <687f2b920709262347l23b3d6cfv3969ea804f4963c3@mail.gmail.com> X-Blog: http://rakhesh.com/ X-Notes: http://rakhesh.net/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Rakhesh Sasidharan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too late to change to security branch? 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: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:08:19 -0000 Hi Bill! > I have servers running 6.1 and 6.2. I use freebsd-update in cron jobs to > install binary security update to the base system, and use cvsup/portupgrade > in cron jobs to install port updates. By default, cvsup uses CURRENT > branch. The ports system doesn't have any branches. The same tree is used between all the different FreeBSD branches so you can't just track security updates only. You track it using portupgrade/ cvsup. The base system has many branches. In your case, you seem to be following the security branches for 6.1 and 6.2 using freebsd-update. > I am tired of some updates breaking something unnecessarily, and am thinking > of changing to SECURITY branch in cvsup. Is that possible? Some of my > ports are already locally compiled with customized options. Maybe you can provide more info on what's breaking? I use FreeBSD for a couple of headless machines. No X and other stuff, but I haven't had any breakages so far. *touchwood* Do go though the UPDATING file to check out any gotchas before updating. HTH, - Rakhesh http://rakhesh.net/