Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:40:25 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: About Patches Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030625033343.0352c068@popserver.sfu.ca>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >On the other hand, check out the security/freebsd-update port and it's >associated web site at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ -- >this isn't an 'official' part of FreeBSD yet (surely only a matter of >time, though). This is a very interesting system for generating >minimally sized binary patches that can be applied directly to a >system without requiring a compilation step. I was wondering why I suddenly saw a burst of traffic. ;) Two notes about FreeBSD Update: 1. FreeBSD Update *SHOULD NEVER BE USED* if you have recompiled anything in the world. FreeBSD Update recognizes which files need to be updated by their MD5 hashes; if you buildworld, FreeBSD Update may fail to recognize files as having been updated. FreeBSD Update will only work properly if you start from a binary install from the "official" FTP or ISO distributions. 2. A couple hours ago, FreeBSD Update 1.3 entered the ports tree. This version uses binary diffs to dramatically reduce the bandwidth used; updating a 4.7-RELEASE to the latest security fixes now uses less than half the bandwidth needed to cvsup from RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE to RELENG_4_7. Colin Percival PS. Please CC on replies, I'm not subscribed.
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