Re: [Openbsdbinpatch-misc] Binpatch Preso

[Mike E. <mi...@er...>]

Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Mike,

Hey, Ingo,

>> Was wondering if I could get some feedback from you guys.
> Imho, that presentation looks very useful!

Appreciate it.

> Still, just in case you are interested in some very minor
> nitpicking:

I am, thanks.

>  - On slide 3,
>    a remark "not yet officially supported in OpenBSD 4.0"
>    behind option 3, "use binpatch"
>    might help to avoid confusion.

Added.

>  - On slide 4,
>    an additional remark
>    "Choose this option if you only need to patch one or two
>     boxes and aim for quickness and simplicity."
>    might be helpful - otherwise, people might wonder whether
>    errata are useful at all.

I added this, but don't see how people would consider errata not useful. =
 The=20
usefulness of the publication of problems and fixes shouldn't depend on t=
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number of boxes you have to manage.  Or am I misunderstanding you?

>  - On slide 5, line 1, after "for patching"
>    consider adding "more than a handful of servers"

Changed to "This seems to be the most recommended method for patching a m=
ore=20
than a small number of servers."

>  - On silde 5, line 4,
>    "use cdXY.iso", not "user cdXY.iso"

Thanks.

>  - On slide 6, line 5,
>    "It doesn't hurt to apply patches already applied."
>    is dangerous.  It *can* hurt applying them out of order.
>    With kernel patches, this is obvious, with userland patches,
>    order is *usually*, but by no means *necessarily* irrelevant.
>    Not sure how to patch this in the slides - you certainly
>    do not want to discuss all the details.

I changed it to "Tarballs can be copied and applied to many servers. If y=
ou=20
can=92t remember whether you installed a binpatch already, it doesn=92t h=
urt to=20
re-apply it while applying newer binpatches."  Better?

> Yours,
>   Ingo

-ME