From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 22:39:14 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 7A4DC106568F for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:39:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cstankevitz@toyon.com) Received: from smtp1.toyon.com (206-190-77-154.static.twtelecom.net [206.190.77.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E6E8FC3F for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.1.101] (hosts253.toyon.com [65.160.147.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp1.toyon.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n7HMi40o004714; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:44:04 -0700 Message-ID: <4A89DC07.6000003@toyon.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:39:03 -0700 From: Chris Stankevitz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> <4A89CA18.7000506@toyon.com> <4A89D4F9.9020508@toyon.com> <1BF62A37-3371-4788-B241-47A591C8666B@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1BF62A37-3371-4788-B241-47A591C8666B@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions 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: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:39:14 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > If you just want security updates and no other changes, you'd update > against RELENG_7_2 instead. Here are you referring only to security updates to the "core OS" and not applications in "ports" such as Firefox? > In the BSDs, the baseline or core OS is separate > from installed ports or packages, and is updated separately from them. What's an example of something that is in "the core OS" and not in the "ports"? GCC? the shells? the kernel? Thank you, Chris