More on freebsd-update (WAS: Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source?)

[Colin Percival]

suporte at wahtec.com.br wrote:
> 1- if and when freebsd-update will be the official freebsd system binary 
> update? Like, when it will be part of freebsd structure, with a dedicated 
> server and stuff? ... It's far better then updating by cvs.

FreeBSD Update is now semi-officially supported, in the sense that I make
sure that it works but the rest of the security team isn't involved.  As I
mentioned earlier, I'm planning on rewriting the build code to make it far
simpler and more reliable; this will make it possible for someone else to
take over if I get hit by a bus, at which point FreeBSD Update will become
officially supported. :-)

> 2- for future plans,  is there any possibility to customize or add some 
> features to kernels on official freebsd-update server? IPSEC is quite 
> important on security.  Since there isn't a LKM to use IPSEC (correct me if 
> I'm wrong), when someone compiles the kernel to add it, he looses the 
> freebsd-update kernel update. 

Right now I provide prebuilt GENERIC and SMP kernels; I could build some
other kernel configurations, but there's obviously a limit to what is
practical.  After I rewrite the build code I'll have to consult with the
release engineering team and the user community about which kernels would
be most useful.

Colin Percival