Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:08:01 +0100 From: Nils Vogels <nivo+sender+3564cf@yuckfou.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup supfile question Message-ID: <3F9BC731.4@yuckfou.org> In-Reply-To: <3F8F4498.30002@verizon.net> References: <3F8F4498.30002@verizon.net>
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Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > I just finished reading the Handbook for CVSup. It appears to be a > very simple process. I'm currently running > FreeBSD 4.8 and from my understanding you can keep your sources up to > date via CVSup. Does this > mean if I were to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 and then CVSup my > source all known security issues would > be resolved for the particular FreeBSD I'm running? Would the > following supfile update all of my sources for > FreeBSD 4.8? Yes that is exactly what it means. > > *default tag=RELENG_4_8 > *default host cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > src-all > > Is there a difference between using RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_8? I > currently update all known security issues via > patch < /path/to/patch method and following the instructions for each > security advisor. Yes, there is a difference. It is explained graphically here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html#AEN99 When you have updated your sources, do not forget to run a make build(world|kernel) depending on what kind of security patch was applied to make sure your kernel or binaries are actually rebuilt. Greetings, Nils.
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