FreeBSD Patch question

[V. Jones]

Thanks to everyone who responded - my question really had more to do with applying patches as they are presented in the various security advisories.  It sounds like most of you don't do it that way; it sounds like you track freebsd-stable using cvsup.  However, section 21.2.2.2 of the handbook seems to advise against doing this when all you want to do is apply security fixes:

"While it is true that security fixes also go into the FreeBSD-STABLE branch, you do not need to track FreeBSD-STABLE to do this. Every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to fix the problem for the releases it affects [1] , and tracking an entire development branch just for security reasons is likely to bring in a lot of unwanted changes as well."

My intention is to apply the patches as instructed in the advisories.  I'll resolve my issues with pgp so that I can validate the files first, then apply them one at a time.