Re: CVSup supfile question

From: Nils Vogels (nivo+sender+3564cf_at_yuckfou.org)
Date: 10/26/03

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    Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:08:01 +0100
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    Alden Louis-Pierre wrote:

    > I just finished reading the Handbook for CVSup. It appears to be a
    > very simple process. I'm currently running
    > FreeBSD 4.8 and from my understanding you can keep your sources up to
    > date via CVSup. Does this
    > mean if I were to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 and then CVSup my
    > source all known security issues would
    > be resolved for the particular FreeBSD I'm running? Would the
    > following supfile update all of my sources for
    > FreeBSD 4.8?

    Yes that is exactly what it means.

    >
    > *default tag=RELENG_4_8
    > *default host cvsup3.FreeBSD.org
    > *default prefix=/usr
    > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
    > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
    > src-all
    >
    > Is there a difference between using RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_8? I
    > currently update all known security issues via
    > patch < /path/to/patch method and following the instructions for each
    > security advisor.

    Yes, there is a difference.

    It is explained graphically here:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html#AEN99

    When you have updated your sources, do not forget to run a make
    build(world|kernel) depending on what kind of security patch was applied
    to make sure your kernel or binaries are actually rebuilt.

    Greetings,

    Nils.
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