Errata Branch

[Paul Andrews]

Matthew,

Thanks for the information. You might have already answered this but I'm 
not 100% sure, once I have cvsup RELENG_4_10 do I need to buildworld 
just to get the errata branch installed or can I just do as:

make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC

or is it better to do

make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
reboot (signal user)
mergemaster -p
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot

Also is it necessary to do the mergemater part of the buildworld process.

Thanks again for the assistance.

Paul

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:39:04PM -0600, Paul Andrews wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm looking for some information on the Errata Branch for 4.10. I just 
>>re-installed my FreeBSD system and am now running 4.10-RELEASE. I want 
>>to make sure that I am running with the most-up-to-date security patches 
>>applied.
> 
> 
> Yes.  All you need to do is cvsup to the head of the RELENG_4_10
> branch, and compile and install using that code.
>  
> 
>>I would like to know the steps necessary for appling the changes in 
>>RELENG_4_10. Also how can I tell if the security patchs and code fixes 
>>have been applied.
> 
> 
> Just using cvsup will get you all of the security and other fixes.
> That includes all of the patches included in the various security
> advisories issued by the FreeBSD project.
> 
> To get a newly installed system up to the latest patch level, using
> cvsup and doing a complete buildworld cycle is your best bet.  For any
> further Errata or Security Advisories, you can always do another
> buildworld cycle, or there will usually be instructions in the
> advisory on how to just recompile only the affected bits.
> 
> If you go the whole 'buildworld' route each time, the uname(1) output
> will show the patchlevel of the system: currently that's
> 4.10-RELEASE-p2 after the release of FreeBSD-SA-04:13 on June 30th.
> 
> Instructions on how to do a buildworld can be found in:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> 
> and also be sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING after cvsup'ing to see if
> there are any special instructions.
>  
> 
>>My stable-subfile:
>>*default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org
>>*default base=/usr
>>*default prefix=/usr
>>*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_10
>>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>>src-all
> 
> 
> That looks fine to me.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
>