Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:55:52 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Omar M. Nafees" <omnafees@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping FreeBSD up-to-date Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20040512165102.03fb4ef8@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405121132250.21258@cpu06.student.cs.uwaterl oo.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405121132250.21258@cpu06.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
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At 16:35 12/05/2004, Omar M. Nafees wrote: >What is the most automated way to keep the FreeBSD base up-to-date? I know >that the binary upgrade option in sysinstall can be used to upgrade the base >to the latest release... but does this take into account new Security >Advisories? No. To upgrade your -RELEASE to include security fixes, you have to update your source tree (either via cvsup or by manually downloading and applying patches) and rebuild (either world or kernel, as applicable). Instructions are included in every security advisory. Or, of course, you could use the not-officially-supported-but-used-by- over-4000-people-anyway binary update option known as FreeBSD Update. You'll find it in the ports tree as security/freebsd-update. :-) Colin Percival
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