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| On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:20:45AM +0000, Steffen Wendzel wrote: > : Imagine this scenario: > : You have a build server to build binpatches > : (http://openbsdbinpatch.sourceforge.net/). After you've manually built > : the patches and tested them for your environment, you copy them to an > : internal FTP, HTTP, or whatever server. > > But what if I does not have more than a one or two openbsd systems. > It wouldn' be that great to setup a server only used to run as > patching-systems. This could be a good solution for >= medium-size > networks but not for small ones. > > Lots of other O.S. (like debian) include some auto-update tool you > can run at night, I think thats extremely useful. openbsd team work with security in mind. automagically-download-patch-install-upgrade is NOT security. if you have 1/2 systems, you do not need no automation. if you have a lot of, you can waste a couple of minutes to install a build-my-binary-patch box. this is insane, think about what will your boss do if your automagical upgrade broke your mysql (like debian does). think about it a while. sz (sorry for double post to sender, my fault) -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIN \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL X / \ GPG Public Key http://www.guly.org/guly.asc |