From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 19:40:31 2003 Return-Path: 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 DEEE937B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C677443F85 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([81.103.196.4]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20030625024029.LBPC28183.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk>; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:40:29 +0100 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20030625033343.0352c068@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:40:25 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Colin Percival Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: About Patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:40:32 -0000 Matthew Seaman 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.