Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:47:42 +0100 From: "n j" <nino80@gmail.com> To: "chris@chrismaness.com" <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update and mergemaster Message-ID: <92bcbda50803030847l384a2605vced5422451625920@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1562.163.150.112.33.1204560652.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> References: <1562.163.150.112.33.1204560652.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org>
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> Who is working on FreeBSD update? Maybe I can make a feature request. Or, even better, make a patch - FreeBSD is open source, everyone can work on it! Sorry, couldn't resist :-). I know the above remark is generally not very helpful for an average user; however, I was surprised to find out that the freebsd-update(8) was actually a shell script - i.e. modifying it doesn't require one to be a hard-core C hacker. freebsd-update(8) is part of the base system and is, as such, in the source tree that is freely available from the CVS repository (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/). Being a shell script also means you can go directly to /usr/sbin/freebsd-update and edit it in-place. The author, to the best of my knowledge, is Colin Percival, the current FreeBSD security officer (http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#sec). Regards, -- Nino
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