From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 4:49:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77EB37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 04:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts24.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B63B43E88 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 04:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.96.113]) by tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021023114921.TBCF6868.tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:49:21 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021023074701.00a9be08@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:49:20 -0400 To: "Toomas Aas" From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: Re: mergemaster problem Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200210231044.g9NAi1u20546@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <3DB59FA8.8030303@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:43 PM 10/23/2002 +0300, you wrote: >Hi! > > > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:57:44 -0700 > > From: Kent Stewart > > Subject: Re: mergemaster problem > >[... about upgrading the world ...] > > If they fix a security related buffer overflow problem in one of the > > system libraries, you need to update all ports that use that library. > >Isn't that the case only with statically linked binaries? I don't know exactly how that works, but after the upgrade (quite successful) all proggies work fine (I hope). I figure that any further updates to the programs will be taken care of by portupgrade. It always worked for me before.... :)) PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message