From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 16 21:45:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C2816A47B for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:45:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775C243D53 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:45:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE68DA6D28 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:45:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.internal ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:45:50 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 2gHBvLCdAI37GCAKVz57qUp/uQmxqCG/okFPHILeGKNn 1158443150 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A17E127D6 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:45:49 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:45:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200609161541.38002.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200609162113.41283.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200609161634.27501.bob@tania.servebbs.org> In-Reply-To: <200609161634.27501.bob@tania.servebbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609162245.46615.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: When is BuildWorld necessary? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:45:50 -0000 On Saturday 16 September 2006 21:34, Bob wrote: > On Saturday 16 September 2006 16:13, RW wrote: > > Not all of the point releases are for the kernel, for example > > 6.1-RELEASE-p2 was a sendmail fix. > > Ok I see; just because my kernel is at p6, doesn't mean the base system is. > > I wasn't on FreeBSD when p2 was released. Would that p2 have triggered a > portaudit warning? Assuming of course that p2 was a security related > sendmail patch. > > What I am getting at is if, my sendmail were acting up, I would look for an > update, and patch sendmail only. If the patch were security related I would > patch it anyway, but I can't see why I would want to rebuild the entire > system for a sendmail upgrade, or a kernel stability patch, when the > individual broken/insecure pieces can be fixed with much less hassel, time, > and risk. In FreeBSD the most conservative approach is to rebuild both world and kernel, they are more of a "matched pair" than in Linux. Since I don't bother to drop into single-user mode, or do the extra reboot for point releases, I just run a single script that does the whole thing (including cvsup), then reboot at my convenience. Having said that, I know some people that run STABLE will just rebuild individual parts of world. IMHO this is a lot more hassle than typing the name of a script, and letting the hardware take the strain.