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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:58:29 +0100
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Staying up to date with security patches
Message-ID:  <201007022258.29863.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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On Friday 02 July 2010, Ed Flecko wrote:

> Since I will be doing a custom kernel at some point, I won't use
> freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead.

The alternative would be to just use the source code patches from the 
security-advisories mailing list. That way you don't have to rebuild 
the whole base system each time, though some of the patches will 
require the kernel to be rebuilt.

-- 
Mike Clarke



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