Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:27:23 -0700 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> Subject: Re: Patch vs. Upgrade Message-ID: <35c231bf0510121027h73c57cafp975d102e4954c5c1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510120633v436204cayf8885f44733ac2bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998646786A@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> <cb5206420510120633v436204cayf8885f44733ac2bc@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/12/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > If things are not too tight on yout hard drive, > consider the cvsup way. It's very easy - and > very clearly described in the handbook. I've seen many people say this, but I suspect they haven't tried looking for information on patching using cvsup in the handbook. It's not easy to find. I think we're doing a disservice to the community directing people there without pointing them to a specific page (it is a 4MB document). The notes on using cvsup to keep your system up to date are under the section header "Cutting Edge". I dunno about you, but when it comes to security patchse, I'd like to see them as easy as possible, not something as elite as that. Maybe that's just a poor choice of a title, though. The only specifically correct information -- using 'standard-supfile' -- appears under the header "Using FreeBSD-CURRENT", a section most newbies certainly ought to avoid unless they want to run bleeding-edge may-not-compile-at-all code. In any case, a direct link to the information on how to keep your system up to date is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht= ml#AEN27683 You only need to read paragraph 2a -- the rest has to do with -CURRENT and other crufty methods of getting source. Then you can skip to: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html and read that and the next page. That should be enough to get you going with the latest -RELEASE-pNN patch level.
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