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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:06:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Open up 2.1.6-RELEASE/[ports|packages] please?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970211000520.923J-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199702062306.QAA12108@cold.org>

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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> I'm sure the security problem doesn't also effect the packages and ports,
> could we have access to them as well?  Some of the -current ports simply
> do not work in 2.1.x because of the libc versions..

Then fix them :)

cp /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0

Yes, you can do this without blowing stuff up.  Only a few functions are
affected, and I have yet to find one that breaks because of this fix.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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