On Sat, 2005-Dec-17 23:35:34 +0100, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: >I agree. And after all, tracking a security branch isn't too difficult, ... ># cd /usr/src ># patch < /path/to/patch ># cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvsbug ># make obj && make depend && make && make install ># cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr ># make obj && make depend && make && make install > >Is that difficult?
Speaking as a developer, I think it's trivially easy. As an end user, I don't think this is acceptable. Firstly, it requires that the user has installed the src distribution - which is optional. Secondly, the user is expected to use development tools without understanding what they do - this is scary for them. Running the above commands is OK as long as nothing goes wrong but the "support" group (who inhabit -questions and answer seemingly silly questions) are going to have to cope with people who've made a typo somewhere in the sequence and can't explain exactly what they did - without putting them off FreeBSD. I think FreeBSD Update shows the way forward but IMHO there needs to be an "official" binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
