At 07:15 19-4-2002 -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Sections 9 and 19. In a nutshell, one uses the 'cvsup' tool to freshen
>your source code, then one rebuilds and installs the OS and/or kernel.
>It's not as daunting a task as it sounds.
>
>As it turns out, there's a very recent thread in freebsd-security about
>this very topic, if you want to know the ups and downs about it.
I actually know David and I know he's familiar with cvsupping and
rebuilding from source.
I guess what his question should be read as "if the ISO images and
distributions are not updated after the -SECURE branch has been updated,
why isn't this the case?"
And I must agree, we know there are bugs in 4.5-RELEASE, yet we don't
update the images for 4.5-RELEASE.
Yes of course people can use cvsup and upgrade that way. But what about
people who are about to install from scratch? Do we REALLY want them to
install a faulty version and then upgrade with cvsup? I can't see any good
reasons to not update them, or replace 4.5-RELEASE with 4.5-RELEASE-pN at
the very least.
And also, cvsup is a beautiful thing, but I can't see someone with a 500MB
harddrive doing a make buildworld. And yes I sometimes am forced to run
FreeBSD on such a small system.
>BTW, freebsd-hackers is not the appropriate venue for questions like this.
>Neither is freebsd-security, actually. Try freebsd-questions next time.
Since he was aware of cvsup I don't think -questions was the right place.
He just should have elaborated a little more.
Greets,
Doc
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