FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 07:48:50PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 04:48 PM 4/30/2013, Glen Barber wrote:
> 
> >So, since I know you're not new to FreeBSD, if you feel there is a bug
> >somewhere, please file a PR.  I disagree that there is a problem,
> >however, since users building a custom kernel should _not_ use
> >freebsd-update(8) for kernel upgrades.
> >
> 
> I will do that. BTW, I do not use freebsd-update(8) to update the kernel. But
> I do need it to update the kernel sources (so I can rebuild the kernel myself)
> and the userland sources and binaries. After all, I can't rebuild the world
> on every production server  each time there's a security fix to apply.
> 

Maybe I am missing the fundamental usage of freebsd-update(8).  How does
using freebsd-update(8) to fetch src/ updates install a new kernel?

Pardon my ignorance here - I do not use freebsd-update(8) for any of my
systems.

Glen

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