From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 07:37:57 2010 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 C2E6E1065676 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from axelbsd@ymail.com) Received: from n20.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (n20.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [87.248.110.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AA6E8FC1B for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.182.177] by n20.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2010 07:37:56 -0000 Received: from [87.248.110.106] by t3.bullet.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2010 07:37:56 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp211.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2010 07:37:56 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 81797.96716.bm@omp211.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 46837 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jul 2010 07:37:55 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ymail.com; s=s1024; t=1279006675; bh=ooiw03yXdp3TOlGsbFES2xWLcJrwjJOOtU3lTmBxvLI=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=frCK8tkW8QWsPXPre1+nrEsmJ8RZbogpzoy/4MvV/WkUQgxgqA9pBERjemtOq3b9U4xBERaUITfxqg72PRK8fol8UEBF6E1cUz9+fL5xbp3FmLgEz4LIIyFJxfjxC+lwrfqbCRXn2eNqERn1LCZ06BXOywusd3xHg2MnSjukA2c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=ymail.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=bh7DVGXshuKEKh1TUzrADKOD9WWjemgkLkT2lKdvUe7YoHutFbplbEEGM329hiyroO11Wm+pMUaNzAFrFCJooacVkpLC0mxtyZnKrUEyyVKlOJr2QIAeE3g36b5bV5jpHEzicoY2onoibmAySUHjXS57bpmXefimJMTtLrBcOpw=; Message-ID: <784158.46830.qm@web24803.mail.ird.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: MetiBpAVM1nVXJDYabEPBpUhPShSSp08rMc7TZveOE3GCCJ oOsoCzsafMjiJAerc9A77UN6lLFwCv5o_FjUhVos7A9hyJZS4rjAtezvgLGQ VpZ6QvUYQ_LeiDudPbLENHap75Ohinbvr.QnTeHFNlboR3fAacDPczUOduGE TkZUxeOWao7J2CGvS7hmLjhG7esHJ12WTM0Evoh_CFQbjyDq6ILJOQopuSKh 4UjRxcnBQ74Yq6Vk5RzxuDurW7iMyzQ62FQ-- Received: from [193.57.110.171] by web24803.mail.ird.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:55 GMT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.2.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.274457 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:55 +0000 (GMT) From: "Alexandre L." To: Mike Clarke , Michael In-Reply-To: <4C3B6D7A.90603@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staying up to date with security patches 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: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:57 -0000 The full process is described here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/ha= ndbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html=0A=0AAlexandre=0A=0A--- En dat= e de=A0: Lun 12.7.10, Michael a =E9crit=A0:=0A=0A> = De: Michael =0A> Objet: Re: Staying up to date with = security patches=0A> =C0: "Mike Clarke" =0A> C= c: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=0A> Date: Lundi 12 juillet 2010, 19h31=0A>= On 02/07/2010 22:58, Mike Clarke=0A> wrote:=0A> > On Friday 02 July 2010, = Ed Flecko wrote:=0A> > =0A> >> Since I will be doing a custom kernel at som= e=0A> point, I won't use=0A> >> freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead.=0A= > > =0A> > The alternative would be to just use the source code=0A> patches= from the=0A> > security-advisories mailing list. That way you don't=0A> ha= ve to rebuild=0A> > the whole base system each time, though some of the=0A>= patches will=0A> > require the kernel to be rebuilt.=0A> > =0A> =0A> That'= s what I used to do and it works. Only trouble is that=0A> in some cases it= turns out that it's not enough to simply=0A> follow instructions from secu= rity advisory. You have to=0A> manually make other parts of the system othe= rwise updating=0A> will fail. I found it somewhat confusing and time=0A> co= nsuming.=0A> =0A> Now I'm using freebsd-update with my custom built kernel= =0A> and it also works fine. I just have to remember to rebuild=0A> and rei= nstall my kernel every time after using=0A> freebsd-update (or in fact only= when kernel code is=0A> affected). That way I got very quick and no-braine= r system=0A> updates.=0A> Is it not advised to do it this way?=0A> =0A> Mic= hael=0A> _______________________________________________=0A> freebsd-questi= ons@freebsd.org=0A> mailing list=0A> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi= nfo/freebsd-questions=0A> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questio= ns-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A> =0A=0A=0A