From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 11:44:31 2004 Return-Path: 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 E1D2316A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BFF43D2F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:44:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2IJhtmH026211; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:43:56 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: ste@smxy.org Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:44:27 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040318180927.GD18657@therub.org> <200403181047.30188.kstewart@owt.com> <4059F0B8.2010903@smxy.org> In-Reply-To: <4059F0B8.2010903@smxy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403181144.27649.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Dan Rue Subject: Re: Downgrading 4.9-stable to 4.9-release-p3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:44:32 -0000 On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:55 am, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > How are you going to include the changed libraries in modules you > > don't rebuild? The advisory was even more specific, i.e., rebuild > > all ports that use OpenSSL. > > That's not exactly what it said. It said to rebuild all statically > linked ports and 3rd-party apps: > > "Note that any statically linked applications that are not part of > the base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party > sources) must be recompiled." > > Dynamically linked programs do not have to be rebuilt. > Ok, I over shot. I do that now and again :). My question is how is the typical sysadmin going to tell which ones were built dynamically. Most sysadmins I have met have never written anything deeper than perl or shell scripts. They hire people that program and use their expertise in different areas where things have to run. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html