On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, David Magda wrote: > >> >>> It is more straightforward to update a FreeBSD install from source code >>> because that is the way it is normally delivered. Sometimes this is useful >>> in order to incorporate a fix as soon as possible without needing to wait >>> for someone to produce binaries. >>> >> >> If you're going to go with (Open)Solaris, the OP may also want to look >> into the multi-platform pkgsrc for third-party open source software: >> >> http://www.pkgsrc.org/ >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkgsrc >> > > But this does not update the OS kernel. It is for application packages. I > did have to apply a source patch to the FreeBSD kernel the last time around. > > This is getting a bit off-topic regarding ZFS, but you only need to patch the FreeBSD kernel if you don't want to wait for an errata/security notice to be made. If you can wait, then you can just use the freebsd-update tool to do a binary update of just the affected (files), or even to the next (major or minor) release. Not sure what the equivalent process would be on (Open)Solaris (or if you even can do a patch/source update). However, I believe the mention of pkgsrc was for use on OSol. There's very little reason to use pkgsrc on FreeBSD. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com
_______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
