Re: how to keep a freebsd 6.0 release up to date



On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Romeo Theriault wrote:

Hi, I'm interested in how to keep a freebsd 6.0 release up to date without having to follow the stable branch. All of the security advisories have instructions on how to patch systems up to 5.4, even though 6.0 is listed as affected also. I've read that 'freebsd-update' will do this, is this correct? But if I don't want to use 'freebsd-update' is there a security branch I can follow with CVSup.

Yes. In your supfile for system updates, put *default tag=RELENG_6_0

Then, when you cvsup, you will get 6.0-RELEASE with the latest security updates.

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