On May 21, 2006, at 11:55 , Colin Percival wrote:
The Security Team has been concerned for some time by anecdotal
reports
concerning the number of FreeBSD systems which are not being promptly
updated or are running FreeBSD releases which have passed their End of
Life dates and are no longer supported. In order to better understand
which FreeBSD versions are in use, how people are (or aren't) keeping
them updated, and why it seems so many systems are not being
updated, I
I have a 6-STABLE box that is not going to be updated to 6.1 any time
soon, because my personal mail will have to be offline while I do so
--- including nuking and rebuilding all ports because the ports tree
has been thrashed by multiple low level updates that affect a large
percentage of the tree --- and it's only a 600MHz box so it will be
offline for most of a week during that upgrade. And I'm uncertain
how downgrading it to 6.0-RELEASE+security patches will complicate
things (downgrading via cvsup/buildworld is not a supported option,
last I checked). Granted, I probably should have stuck with 6.0-R
--- but then, experience has shown me that the more reliable option
is to wait a week or two after release and then install -STABLE.
In short: keeping FreeBSD up to date tends to be painful at best.
--
brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]
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system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university
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