Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:20:39 -0500 From: Bigby James <bigby.james@dimthoughts.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD recommends not using base unbound for an authoritative server Message-ID: <20150319212039.GA2076@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <CAPi0pst0Z4i9KgGGFd2F%2BT=mcAKMRHucQBGGj9=PvU8pY--Vsg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPi0pssPrcJgF71AvQ-M1RZt=%2Btv=6FTGtwhi9_bX6-Q-7b7cQ@mail.gmail.com> <5508B8EB.3050907@gmail.com> <CAPi0psuy1swnCB%2B5NQbPrAAA=E3E377CcOPvvez%2Be4Ze6zuVZQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAKE2PDvy7CRW_O_XR9oHtHBe8gO9THVGGz1BdN6dPbZSGk8etA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPi0psurwfKixg3S_pQ7_a9QOCJ2yTBqQncxHB75nzX-%2BnZszw@mail.gmail.com> <20150319010245.17075fe5.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAPi0pst0Z4i9KgGGFd2F%2BT=mcAKMRHucQBGGj9=PvU8pY--Vsg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/19, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Poly, > > Thank you for your thorough response. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > >> - infrequent updates > > > > What does "infrequent" mean? > > What I was referring to here was: > > I subscribe to freebsd-announce, which as I'm sure you know, sends out > an email whenever the OS changes. It explains why it changed, who is > affected, etc. These emails (and their associated software releases) > are "infrequent" in that I get them less than once per month. I > imagine they are infrequent because of the quality of the software in > the base OS and not because the OS team is slow an lazy. (although you > point out that RELEASE updates are delayed and could leave my system > vulnerable... this is scary...) FreeBSD-RELEASE---the version of the OS that gets installed when you download an installation image from freebsd.org---only gets updated any time a serious security hole or system-breaking bug is discovered, or when a new RELEASE is made. That's it. "Minor" bugs get fixed up in the development tree, but aren't actually incorporated into the system until a) the next -RELEASE is made, or b) you rebuild the system from source (if following -CURRENT). Exactly what constitutes a "minor" bug can be subjective, however. The ports tree on the other hand is updated constantly, and packages are built from a snapshot of the ports tree every week. If you're using a program built from ports or installed via pkg(8), you're guaranteed to get updates as they come (and from my brief expierience with FreeBSD port maintainers tend to update their ports rather quickly when a new version is released). What this means, in short, is that you will only see an update to a program in the RELEASE base system when that program is dangerously broken, while a program built from a port or installed via pkg(8) may get updated almost immediately. ;) -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
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