On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Pete French <[email protected]> wrote: > I build code using static linking for deployment across a set of > machines. For me this has a lot of advantages - I know that the > code will run, no matter what the state of the ports is on the > machine, and if there is a need to upgrade a library then I do it > once on the build machine, rebuild the executable, and rsync it out > to the leaf nodes. Only one place to track security updates, only > one place where I need to have all the porst the code depends on > installed. >
You still have to track security updates for the rest of your system. ssh for example. Kernel bugs too (though admittedly those are much more rare). _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
