From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 5 23: 5: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D740337B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:05:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mm.seattleu.edu (mm2.seattleu.edu [216.137.26.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58F6643EC2 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@rainbowsheep.net) Received: (qmail 7722 invoked by uid 89); 6 Dec 2002 06:57:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rainbowsheep.net) (216.231.49.44) by mm2 with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 06:57:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF04D85.3020102@rainbowsheep.net> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:11:01 -0800 From: Joe Laughlin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021129 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: update strategies References: <5FCDFD3A-08CB-11D7-86ED-003065A9024A@ish.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > I'm new here, and I've been lurking to look for answers. You seem like a > friendly bunch, so I'll ask my question. > > It appears that there are two strategies for updating FreeBSD systems: > > * cvsup the latest STABLE release on a regular basis > * get the CD release (4.6, 4.7, etc) snapshots periodically and update > from that either with binaries or compiled from source > > I am curious about what most people do. For a server where stability is > important, I obviously don't want to buildworld once a week, but it is > also important to keep on top of bug reports and security holes. I don't think it's necessary to recompile the whole world if you're just worried about a security hole with one small portion. Just recompile/install that part. Unless it's a big change, it shouldn't cause any problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message