From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 22:28:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D68E106566B for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mta21.charter.net (mta21.charter.net [216.33.127.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252038FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:28:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from imp11 ([10.20.200.11]) by mta21.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.09.01.00 201-2219-108-20080618) with ESMTP id <20090319222824.XOQX3344.mta21.charter.net@imp11> for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:28:24 -0400 Received: from [192.168.254.3] ([24.176.102.90]) by imp11 with charter.net id VAUP1b00T1x1fmY05AUQ2L; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:28:24 -0400 Message-Id: From: Charles Howse To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <49C29970.3070503@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:23 -0500 References: <8250ac3f0903191139m7c895ff9gde584ad16e3923f0@mail.gmail.com> <49C29970.3070503@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Subject: Re: Portsnap vs CSup 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: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:28:37 -0000 On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: > freebsd-update is another matter though. Base system security > updates are distributed via that channel(binary updates) so it's a > good idea to run that regularly. I just noticed the description in the man page for freebsd-update: ..."Note that updates are only available if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD 6.1- RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD 7.0- CURRENT." Is this saying that I can't get a binary upgrade for 6.4-STABLE? (You would not believe how long the make world process takes on a Pentium 200!!)