Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 08/28/03

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To: leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    At 02:23 29/08/2003 +0800, leafy wrote:
    >On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:16:11AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
    > > Because FreeBSD Update identifies the particular binaries affected by a
    > > source code change and only distributes those, it also saves bandwidth --
    > > updating a 4.8-RELEASE system using FreeBSD Update uses less than half the
    > > bandwidth required to update the source tree with cvsup.
    >Does this include kernel binary patches? Or is this possible at all?
    >(kernel patch)

       Provided that you're running the GENERIC kernel distributed with the
    RELEASE, yes, it will be updated.
       I'd like to see a GENERIC-SMP kernel distributed with the release, so
    that people with multiprocessor machines can take advantage of kernel
    binary patches, but I don't know nearly enough about sysinstall to provide
    useful patches. (Building an SMP version of the GENERIC kernel is easy,
    but making it an option in sysinstall is a different matter.)

    Colin Percival

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