On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:52:14AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I read in the documentation that if there are fixes, they come through > patches, and then to keep things simple, the easiest "fastest" way is > to keep the whole stable source tree up to date with patches, which > imply initial compilation + recompiling any time a patch arise... > > I'm wondering whether this would mean lots of compilation time, which > in this small machine might take too much... > > So it's true there's no binary way to keep the system patched, right?
Correct wrt. -stable. You could, however, use a another, faster machine to build -stable releases. This machine could be a virtual machine that you start up the few times it is needed... Martin
