Re: Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source?

From: Colin Percival (cperciva_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/29/05

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To: markzero <mark@darklogik.org>

    markzero wrote:
    > In my case, all I'm after is a way to distribute a custom build of
    > FreeBSD. When I say custom, I really just mean a standard build with
    > a custom make.conf:
    >
    > [snip]
    >
    > I'd rather not use NFS, for security reasons, so I've had to resort
    > to ad-hoc shell scripts to do updates. It'd be nice to have something
    > officially supported to replace them.

    It looks like nearly all of your customizations simply involve removing
    certain files from the system. FreeBSD Update is designed to handle
    this situation: If there is a security update in sendmail and you have
    deleted the sendmail binaries, FreeBSD Update will ignore that particular
    update.

    Is there any reason why this is insufficient?

    Colin Percival
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