Re: A question about Security Advisories
Eugene Grosbein <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.security.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
11.08.2020 14:21, Oleksandr Kryvulia wrote: > > 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. Also binary upgrade is not an option for STABLE users. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"