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Update binary updater project to point to Colin Percival's promising

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'freebsd-update' system.
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Murray Stokely 2003-08-18 20:36:42 +00:00
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA ".."> <!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/projects.sgml,v 1.143 2003/08/11 18:19:27 ceri Exp $"> <!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/projects.sgml,v 1.144 2003/08/11 18:20:11 ceri Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Development Projects"> <!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Development Projects">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes; <!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
]> ]>
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archives and various per-package scripts among other things. It also archives and various per-package scripts among other things. It also
includes the beginnings of a new sysinstall.</li> includes the beginnings of a new sysinstall.</li>
<li><A name="binup" HREF="updater.html">Binary Updater <li><A name="binup"
(binup)</A>. The FreeBSD Binary Updater Project aims to HREF="http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/">Binary
provide a secure mechanism for the distribution of binary Updater</a>. FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically
updates for FreeBSD. This system is a client / server building, distributing, fetching, and applying binary security
mechanism that allows clients to install any known "profile" updates for FreeBSD. This makes it possible to easily track
or release of FreeBSD over the network. Where a specific the FreeBSD security branches without the need for fetching
profile might contain a specific set of FreeBSD software to the source tree and recompiling (except on the machine
install, additional packages, and configuration actions that building the updates, of course). Updates are
make it more ideal for a specific environment (ie FreeBSD 4.3 cryptographically signed; they are also distributed as binary
Secure Web server profile).</li> diffs using my binary diff tool, which dramatically reduces
the bandwidth used.</li>
<li><a name="c99" href="&base;/projects/c99/index.html">The <li><a name="c99" href="&base;/projects/c99/index.html">The
FreeBSD C99 &amp; POSIX&reg; Conformance Project</a> aims to FreeBSD C99 &amp; POSIX&reg; Conformance Project</a> aims to