A question about Security Advisories
Oleksandr Kryvulia <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.security.general |
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Hi, Last years all Security Advisories regarding base system in the "update your vulnerable system via a source code patch " section recommends to rebuild a whole world instead of an affected part of a base system. This is in a most cases an overhead. For example 9 years old SA-11:04 [1] offers: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/compress # make obj && make depend && make && make install # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/gzip # make obj && make depend && make && make install What is a reason we stop to do it? I understand that the preferred way now is a binary upgrade. Thank you. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"