Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:00:00 -0500 From: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2 Message-ID: <53E68BD0.5090209@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20140809150815.GA65785@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <4CA0146F-BD4E-4613-9050-DB0C1FDB7EA4@lafn.org> <53C8B7A2.1060504@my.hennepintech.edu> <494D0D9E-ED60-4187-ABCF-8E18CDEAB911@lafn.org> <53C8E2A7.6000000@my.hennepintech.edu> <20140809150815.GA65785@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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On 2014.08.09 10:08, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Andrew Berg wrote: >> The best thing to do since you need to build world and kernel is to >> just use svn and do all updates via source. freebsd-update does >> nothing for you. Grab a completely new copy of the 9.3 source with >> svn and then build and install it. > > Would it be safe to use freebsd-update to install binary security patches > after upgrading a system from source? Since you have your own changes, no. IIRC, there are instructions in the announcements for building only what has changed so that you do not need to rebuild the entire world and kernel.
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