Daniel Bye wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:24:26PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
I understand I can use csup to follow the RELENG_62 branch. After the
sources are downloaded, do I have to follow all the steps outlined in this
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html)
handbook document? I can understand building and installing world and
kernel, but would I have to reboot to single user and do the mergemaster
stuff too?
If you follow the complete rebuild instructions, yes. If you follow the
instructions for *patching* the system as given in the relevant security
notifications, then only if those instructions say so. You do subscribe
to security-notifications@, don't you? ;-)
Err, not yet but I just did after seeing your mail. :)
Now that you mention, yes, I had seen those security notifications and
they mention what to do by way of patching. Great! That's better.
I *think* I might not have to do mergemaster coz security updates
shouldn't have changes in the /etc files and so there'd be no need for
merging files.
Sometimes, the security fixes involve changes under /etc. The recent
jails error comes to mind, as a case in point.
Thanks for the example.
I'd suggest trying it out on a non-critical system, so as to familiarise
yourself with the procedure. You'll be glad you did.
That's the plan. I wanted to try this method out (a) to familiarize myself
with it, and (b) I understand if one builds custom kernels then the
freebsd-update method won't work ... I've csuped the RELENG_62 branch, now
I'll check out the patches and try applying them.
Thanks for your inputs!
- Rakhesh
http://rakhesh.net/
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