Steffen Wendzel wrote:
> 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.

Building your own binpatches from
http://openbsdbinpatch.sourceforge.net/ is trivial. If you only have
two servers, build on one and scp the file to the other. "tar -xvzpf"
only takes a second.

> Lots of other O.S. (like debian) include some auto-update tool you
> can run at night, I think thats extremely useful.

So use other O.S.

> But... official binary patches.. this would be a great think. And a
> ssh based cvs download from the official servers could decrese the
> security problems related on other protocols.

Again, trivial to build.

> but actually, there are no official binary patches. it also would take
> a lot of time to create them for every platform :-(

Not for your two systems. Even if they're two different arches.

> -steffen

-ME

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