FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Scott Long wrote:
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
>> I think FreeBSD Update shows the way forward but IMHO there needs to
>> be an "official" binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org.
>>
> 
> FreeBSD Update was written by, and is continuously maintained by the
> actual FreeBSD Security Officer.  It's as official as it gets.  If
> the only barrier to acceptance is that it's not distributed from the
> FreeBSD.org domain, then a) that's a silly argument, and b) it's easily
> solvable so long as Colin agrees.
> 
isn't this the problem Microsoft faces all the while when users download 
the latest security patch from somewhere in the Internet?

Teaching water and drinking wine?

Erich