Re: Security Updates in Slackware64-14.2

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:36:15 -0400
Ed Fletcher via slackware <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/07/2017 08:13 PM, Rich Shepard via slackware wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Ed Fletcher via slackware wrote:
> >   
> >> I just did an install of Slackware 64 14.2 on a spare box.  
> > 
> > Ed,
> > 
> >    What was the source you used? The distribution DVD?
> >   
> 
> I should have mentioned that I did the install via http.  That's why 
> FILELIST.TXT had all the latest updates in it.  The version on the
> DVD would be the original.


While it would be nice to have the installer take care of the
post-release patches automatically if using http/ftp/localmirror
as an installation source, after looking at the installer code,
that is not an undertaking that I wish to inflict upon anyone,
much less myself. :-)

-RW

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