OpenSSL Security Advisory [11 Jun 2015]

[Michelle Sullivan]

Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Michelle Sullivan wrote on 06/13/2015 14:29:
>
> [...]
>
>> 57 servers around the world that I have to maintain, patch and upgrade
>> at the same time as devel and maintain my applications... yeah I don't
>> do source stuff ;-)
>>
>> It would be useful to have that option in freebsd-update.
>
> I was using freebsd-update for the same reason, but freebsd-update
> have its own problems, so I am doing make buildkernel & make
> buildworld on one machine (build server), exporting /usr/src and
> /usr/obj by NFS to other machines and then just make installkernel and
> installworld (+mergemaster) on each machine. It takes few minutes. It
> is maybe a faster way than freebsd-update and less fragile for
> uncomplete updates etc.

Unfortunately I cannot NFS everything - the servers are world wide
behind their own firewalls some on private (non public) networks VIPd to
provide services.

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/