Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portsnap vs CSup Message-ID: <20090319184847.J29356@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <B03C7532-C4E5-43F0-A877-7A88C5D5483C@charter.net> References: <8250ac3f0903191139m7c895ff9gde584ad16e3923f0@mail.gmail.com> <49C29970.3070503@gmail.com> <B03C7532-C4E5-43F0-A877-7A88C5D5483C@charter.net>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Charles Howse wrote: > On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: > > I just noticed the description in the man page for freebsd-update: > > ..."Note that updates are only available if they are being built for > the FreeBSD release and architecture being used; in particular, the > FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in > binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD > 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD > 7.0-CURRENT." > Is this saying that I can't get a binary upgrade for 6.4-STABLE? That is exactly what it's saying. > (You would not believe how long the make world process takes on a Pentium > 200!!) I believe it; been there! I seem to recall it went something like 'start the buildworld and go to bed'. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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