Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

[Colin Percival]

At 00:38 28/08/2003 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE isn't due out until the end of next month. What's the best
>way to install a relatively stable build of FreeBSD, with all known security
>issues fixed, in the interim? I'd very much NOT like to do a CVS update and
>rebuild the world on these machines, as hard drive space and time available
>for installation will be limited.

1. Install FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
2. pkg_add 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/security/freebsd-update-1.3.tgz
3. mv /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample 
/usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf
4. /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
5. /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install

   (Ok, dumb question: Why is my pkg_message not part of the package on 
ftp.freebsd.org?  It works when I `make package` locally.)

Colin Percival