Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:44:38 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mario Doria" <mariodoria@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: The upgrading process Message-ID: <001e01c12c57$7b29d300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010824012800.30523.qmail@web14203.mail.yahoo.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mario Doria >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:28 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: The upgrading process > > >Hi, > >When a security update happens, like the last one with the proc fs, >what is the >required drill? The instructions are in the security notification file for the update. >I usually rebuild world, rebuild kernel and reboot. I want to know if that is >necessary, No - not unless the thing being patched is linked into by every program in the system, which is probably not likely to say the least. Obviously, a patch that applies to a file in the kernel will most likely require a kernel recompile. A patch that affects a library (like the patch for libc that came out right after 4.3 was released) may force a recompile of everything linked against that library (as that patch did) A patch that affects a standalone program will only require recompilation of that program. The security notification patch instructions are always the most authoratative source of instructions. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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