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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2006 09:28:21 +0100
From:      Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Survey
Message-ID:  <20060525082821.GA93011@kierun.org>
In-Reply-To: <p06230905c09a5acceffb@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20060523120100.37D2B16A54F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz> <20060523160051.GA78620@kierun.org> <44741A43.40302@kernel32.de> <20060524144537.46463a90@hydrocodone.org> <p06230905c09a5acceffb@[128.113.24.47]>

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Quoth Garance A Drosihn on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:40:23 -0400
> >> The answer is: build host + jails for a testing environment...
> >> This'll reduce your actual downtime.
> >Did you just tell him to get another computer for each arch
> >to have as a build machine???
> >
> >Being a broke college student I don't think that's something
> >I'd ever do to install updates on my boxes. I can't afford
> >another computer just to build updates when every other OS
> >I use does updates in another way....
>=20
> If you are a college student with a few machines that
> you work with, then you can afford some downtime.

Why?  Just because I am from a mathematics department with no money for
hardware at all does not mean that our VLE does not have to run all the
time. =20

So, same question with three machines: home, office and off shore
server.  How do I keep them all up to date without having to run the
patches three times?...=20

BTW, I consider pre-compiled packages to good (easy to install, etc...)=20
and bad (no fine tuning, etc...) while compile are good for exactly the
opposite reasons.  Not sure which is best.

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