FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver

[Bakul Shah]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:48:50 MDT Brett Glass <brett at lariat.org> wrote:
> 
> I will do that. BTW, I do not use freebsd-update(8) to update the kernel. But
> I do need it to update the kernel sources (so I can rebuild the kernel myself)

If you are tracking just the kernel sources, you can use svn
to track the releng/9.1 branch. If for some reason you really
really want to use freebsd-update, I'd suggest setting up a
virtual machine that exactly tracks a release.

> and the userland sources and binaries. After all, I can't rebuild the world
> on every production server each time there's a security fix to apply.

You can use a `staging' server where you can update, build and
check things out before a wider deployment. There are tools
that allow you to push your changes to the deployed machines.