Re: A question about Security Advisories

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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:21:07AM +0300, 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.

+1 I've been wondering this as well. What is the reason for it?
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J.
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