Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:25:56 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source? Message-ID: <4362DDB4.6030906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051028072518.GA82014@logik.internal.network> References: <20051027233106.377D070DCE3@mail.npubs.com> <4361CD31.1080707@freebsd.org> <20051028072518.GA82014@logik.internal.network>
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markzero wrote: > In my case, all I'm after is a way to distribute a custom build of > FreeBSD. When I say custom, I really just mean a standard build with > a custom make.conf: > > [snip] > > I'd rather not use NFS, for security reasons, so I've had to resort > to ad-hoc shell scripts to do updates. It'd be nice to have something > officially supported to replace them. It looks like nearly all of your customizations simply involve removing certain files from the system. FreeBSD Update is designed to handle this situation: If there is a security update in sendmail and you have deleted the sendmail binaries, FreeBSD Update will ignore that particular update. Is there any reason why this is insufficient? Colin Percival
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