[BUGS] question on up keeping of a production server

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 05/06/2008, at 6:19 PM, goku - wrote:

>  Now here is my question.  I've read that a safe method of updating  
> the system's binaries is using a utility called freebsd-update.  I  
> have read that it does not update –STABLE .  It only tracks the  
> release tag.  So do I change the RELENG_7 to RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE ?   
> also when freebsd 7.1R becomes available and I decide not to  
> upgrade.  Will the freebsd-update still update the system's  
> binaries? Or do I have to upgrade to freebsd 7.1R and change the  
> RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE  to RELENG_7_1_0_RELEASE

I think what you're asking is "how do I track the security branch for  
a release?

The answer to that is, assuming you want 7.0 would be to track  
RELENG_7_0, this would then get anything with 7.0 in the tag (eg  
7.0.1, 7.0.2, etc).

Doing a binary update isn't always the best procedure, since you can't  
compile with cpu specific optimizations (mtune) or use -O2 or any  
other flags you might want to compile with or pass to make.. There  
isn't really anything dangerous about compiling your own sources..
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