Matthew,
Thanks for the information. You might have already answered this but I'm not 100% sure, once I have cvsup RELENG_4_10 do I need to buildworld just to get the errata branch installed or can I just do as:
make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
or is it better to do
make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC reboot (signal user) mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster reboot
Also is it necessary to do the mergemater part of the buildworld process.
Thanks again for the assistance.
Paul
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:39:04PM -0600, Paul Andrews wrote:
I'm looking for some information on the Errata Branch for 4.10. I just re-installed my FreeBSD system and am now running 4.10-RELEASE. I want to make sure that I am running with the most-up-to-date security patches applied.
Yes. All you need to do is cvsup to the head of the RELENG_4_10
branch, and compile and install using that code.
I would like to know the steps necessary for appling the changes in RELENG_4_10. Also how can I tell if the security patchs and code fixes have been applied.
Just using cvsup will get you all of the security and other fixes. That includes all of the patches included in the various security advisories issued by the FreeBSD project.
To get a newly installed system up to the latest patch level, using cvsup and doing a complete buildworld cycle is your best bet. For any further Errata or Security Advisories, you can always do another buildworld cycle, or there will usually be instructions in the advisory on how to just recompile only the affected bits.
If you go the whole 'buildworld' route each time, the uname(1) output will show the patchlevel of the system: currently that's 4.10-RELEASE-p2 after the release of FreeBSD-SA-04:13 on June 30th.
Instructions on how to do a buildworld can be found in:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
and also be sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING after cvsup'ing to see if
there are any special instructions.
My stable-subfile: *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_10 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all
That looks fine to me.
Cheers,
Matthew
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