Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:14:21 -0700 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots? Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030828120949.02da2d90@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030828182343.GA89926@chihiro.leafy.idv.tw> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20030828110441.02d9f580@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20030828103403.02d683a8@popserver.sfu.ca> <200308280638.AAA19221@lariat.org> <5.0.2.1.1.20030828110441.02d9f580@popserver.sfu.ca>
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At 02:23 29/08/2003 +0800, leafy wrote: >On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:16:11AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > > Because FreeBSD Update identifies the particular binaries affected by a > > source code change and only distributes those, it also saves bandwidth -- > > updating a 4.8-RELEASE system using FreeBSD Update uses less than half the > > bandwidth required to update the source tree with cvsup. >Does this include kernel binary patches? Or is this possible at all? >(kernel patch) Provided that you're running the GENERIC kernel distributed with the RELEASE, yes, it will be updated. I'd like to see a GENERIC-SMP kernel distributed with the release, so that people with multiprocessor machines can take advantage of kernel binary patches, but I don't know nearly enough about sysinstall to provide useful patches. (Building an SMP version of the GENERIC kernel is easy, but making it an option in sysinstall is a different matter.) Colin Percival
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