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Date:      Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:28:49 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Questions about freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <559F2DE1.3010708@sneakertech.com>
In-Reply-To: <559F2A4C.7070509@sneakertech.com>
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>>> The main rationale here is that updates can occasionally cause behavior
>>> changes which can negatively interact with 3rd party software.
>>
>> This is correct, but so can selectively applying updates...
>
> FWIW, I'm not really too concerned with the ability to apply patches
> piecemeal. Applying them all in order is fine as long as it's one at a
> time. Although my last email used the example 'freebsd-update install
> patch_file', some flavor of 'freebsd-update install
> specific_date_or_revision' would work too for this case.

I guess part of it is that I'm slightly paranoid about patches against 
freebsd-update itself, and don't entirely trust it to apply those as 
early as possible.





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