From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 8 03:41:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F53C1065675 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 03:41:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-src@helfman.org) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7663C8FC14 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 03:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds11 with SMTP id ds11so243184wgb.31 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:41:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=U5OAW5trqJHA66pMjHKiDkroISPPeEAyLVCKswiyAQE=; b=WfmervwRw1cwBUUl4AXWqib0slqVFzPkPRxSjkMAnSmbuf++2tkyLrur73ujJ81HTu fa0QFG3FVhof/MIJYgWaNUiau2nC4dx4G6GSQzcRQd2ucp/xM9ZvP6nht0BpvqTzdT1d rvj23SCzssG1YTOZGiEto6o6RTsgDd3u4NR8dfPMDmWQWeTtQTn2n7HA8nh3L+suUMKz dAjGhLrvCUydsTJ0tEG0SfPLqPPVgQE3rjUELNJnNPVdlXo3jDOMCvztTuxkm87LYjpL ihIbfdd+9Unj5EXJsLRrGEirGM5DQDssR946cFUeCf6tAu1ibSQNp29Le+JMQ81rgI4f 4TGg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.136.230 with SMTP id w80mr922124wei.199.1344397312253; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: bsd-src@helfman.org Received: by 10.194.16.36 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:41:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201207222219.q6MMJeAL032049@svn.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:41:52 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: EEzWwqYwPXEZri079pouUxJ_zFk Message-ID: From: Jason Helfman To: Eitan Adler X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmnssrasBwjpkcLTXWgY9bUEpVwgvdj3ZkxK/Bxw+scPzk0dikC3Sh3YECBQofBH7wsDe19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: svn commit: r39249 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:41:55 -0000 On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 28 July 2012 03:07, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > > A further consideration in the source code-related sections is that > building > > your own {world, kernel} will bump you off the support path for binary > > updates and upgrades with freebsd-update. This is increasingly a > > consideration for our default kernel configuration: kernel options that > > require recompilation force users not to use the most user-friendly > upgrade > > path we have. > > I've committed some text to this effect. > > -- > Eitan Adler > Source & Ports committer > X11, Bugbusting teams > And the other side of this, is if you decided to run your own custom kernel, you can run your own update server, and follow the patches from upstream security. Here is an article I wrote to this affect. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-update-server/ -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh