upgrade
Paul Schmehl
pauls at utdallas.edu
Wed Aug 11 08:21:26 PDT 2004
--On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:59:46 AM -0500 Eric Crist
<ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote:
>
> The difference between a binary upgrade and an upgrade via CVS or cvsup
> is the time between creation of the sources. Binary upgrades generally
> come out durning major releases, for example, from 4.9 to 4.10. Any
> security patches added between that time were only available with a
> CVS/cvsup upgrade, followed by a system rebuild.
>
This is simply not true. You can upgrade all the sources using
freebsd-update. Look in /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update. I use this on
production servers now to lessen downtime. All you have to do is a fetch,
then an install, then reboot, and you're done. On a production webserver
getting millions of hits a month, this is a godsend.
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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