svn commit: r39249 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 8 03:50:07 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:41:52PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 28 July 2012 03:07, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > > A further consideration in the source code-related sections is that
> > building
> > > your own {world, kernel} will bump you off the support path for binary
> > > updates and upgrades with freebsd-update.  This is increasingly a
> > > consideration for our default kernel configuration: kernel options that
> > > require recompilation force users not to use the most user-friendly
> > upgrade
> > > path we have.
> >
> > I've committed some text to this effect.
> >
> 
> And the other side of this, is if you decided to run your own custom
> kernel, you can run your own update server, and follow the patches from
> upstream security. Here is an article I wrote to this affect.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-update-server/
> 

Just a random thought as I am sitting here trying to reproduce some
release build issues on -CURRENT:

Does this article require any significant change to keep in sync with
the changed 'make release' process starting with 9.0-RELEASE?

Glen



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