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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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