On 02/07/2010 22:58, Mike Clarke wrote:
On Friday 02 July 2010, Ed Flecko wrote:
Since I will be doing a custom kernel at some point, I won't use
freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead.
The alternative would be to just use the source code patches from the
security-advisories mailing list. That way you don't have to rebuild
the whole base system each time, though some of the patches will
require the kernel to be rebuilt.
That's what I used to do and it works. Only trouble is that in some
cases it turns out that it's not enough to simply follow instructions
from security advisory. You have to manually make other parts of the
system otherwise updating will fail. I found it somewhat confusing and
time consuming.
Now I'm using freebsd-update with my custom built kernel and it also
works fine. I just have to remember to rebuild and reinstall my kernel
every time after using freebsd-update (or in fact only when kernel code
is affected). That way I got very quick and no-brainer system updates.
Is it not advised to do it this way?
Michael
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