This article describes building an internal FreeBSD Update Server.
The freebsd-update-server
is written by Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
, Security Officer Emeritus of FreeBSD.
For users that think it is convenient to update their systems
against an official update server, building their own FreeBSD Update Server may
help to extend its functionality by supporting manually-tweaked
FreeBSD releases or by providing a local mirror that will allow faster
updates for a number of machines.
This article was subsequently printed at BSD Magazine.
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