From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 10:22:48 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 84C6116A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:22:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from out010.verizon.net (out010pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3533643D2D for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.120.219]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040318182247.UUNE26728.out010.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:22:47 -0600 Message-ID: <4059E869.3010000@mac.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:20:25 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Rue References: <20040318180927.GD18657@therub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040318180927.GD18657@therub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [68.161.120.219] at Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:22:47 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:22:48 -0000 Dan Rue wrote: > Am I going to run into problems going from 4.9-stable > to releng_4_9? Nope-- this shouldn't be any problem. > If I can sneak in a second question. With this openssl fix, couldn't I > just apply the patch, cd /usr/src/crypto/openssl && make install ? > Instead of the recommended buildworld fiasco? Certainly you could do so, but the security fix would only apply to programs which dynamicly link the OpenSSL library. In order to fix any staticly linked binaries, you'd need to recompile them as well, which is why the buildworld procedure is generally recommended. -- -Chuck