On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:36:55PM -0400, Quartz wrote:
> >You think the master builds are done on a machine that is identical to
> >yours at home?
>
> Obviously not, but that doesn't have any bearing on what I said.
>
>
> >Build a -stable release on a same platform faster machine. Now unpack
> >the .tgz files on the target machines, copy in /bsd, /bsd.rd, reboot.
> >ta-da, patched machine. None of your configuration is touched by this
> >process.
>
> Maybe I'm unclear on what building -stable actually does. Correct me if I'm
> wrong, but "world" encompasses a lot more than just the kernel and ramdisk,
> right? Simply replacing just those two alone isn't fully keeping on top of
> things.
Please see FAQ 5.4, which articulates how to build a release (-stable, or
-current). The definitive documentation is release(8).
