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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:44:49 -0400
From: Rail mail <railmail@gmail.com>
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well I was thinking either I do binary updates or recompile updates.
My first question started off with "can I get security fixes with out
recompiling?".

I knew about upgrade in sysinstall, but the word was that gets the
release specified, not necessarily security fixes.

So then I thought you have to recompile to get updates. But
freebsd-update was then introduced to me. But It complained since we
had to recompile the src for the release (5.1) to get certain features
in the kernel.

So I am still stuck with the question "can I get security fixes with
out recompiling?".

R.

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:27:31 -0500, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Rail mail wrote:
> > I have compiled kernel and now want to find easiest, safest way to
> > upgrade a production machine.
> >
> > I'm trying to make a decision on to either A just always do a cvsup
> > with RELENG_5_X and make world or B try to pull something together
> > with freebsd-update.
> >
> > of course freebsd-update 1.4 gets upset since files were modified, due
> > to src update and compile.
> 
> I could be wrong but I thought the whole idea of FreeBSDUpdate is NOT to
> mess with the source. I always thought that the before mentioned
> updeated only the binaries.
> 
> That being said, and if you did tamper with the source - then cvsup (to
> me) is the proper course of action.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> Real programmers can do octal, hexadecimal and
> binary math in their heads.
>