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From: "Alexander Leidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:41 AM
To: "Andrew Hotlab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "FreeBSD-Jail" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to better update a jail host system
I've spent some time on the past days to find how to build a world
which contains only the "Binary base" and "man" distributions (as I
always select from the sysinstall menu options during the first server
setup), but I didn't found any article or man page which helped me.
I don't know exactly what is in the binary and man dists, but what you
need to do is either to just grab the new dists from an FTP server and
extract them over the old ones, or to have a look what is installed by a
make world what is not in those dists and have a look for WITHOUT_ knobs
which exclude those parts from the build/install. There may be not enough
WITHOU_ knobs to produce those dists, as they are generated in a
different way (make release).
Ok, thank you Alexander! But what do you think about upgrading the server on
the "installed binary distribution" basis? Perhaps it sounds good to me
because I'm coming from Windows Server experience (where it's important to
maintain only the Windows components you need, in order to reduce the attack
surface). Maintaining as few as possible binary distributions is so
important in FreeBSD too, or it helps only to grow unnecessary system
complexity?
TIA
Andrew
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