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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:19:39 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rachel Florentine <rachel_florentine@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How Do Binary Repair
Message-ID:  <20061204231939.GA92108@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061204230820.20010.qmail@web57812.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <20061204230820.20010.qmail@web57812.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:08:20PM -0800, Rachel Florentine wrote:
> 82----- Original Message ----
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
>=20
> >Reinstall from backup or fresh binary media.
>=20
> So go to GNU and look for a gcc tarball and have at it. But that's not th=
e FBSD way of doing things, is it? I wouldn't do that with MySQL, for examp=
le, I'd use the port, right? So, what's the FBSD way of doing this?
> TIA,

Uh, what I said.  "Fresh binary media" =3D either reinstall from an iso
image, or extract a copy of the damaged files from the freebsd release
media in another way (e.g. fetch the base.* files from the ftp site,
and pass through cat | tar -xfj -).

If it was some other file you damaged, you could repair it by just
recompiling from source, but the compiler is a critical part of the
FreeBSD system and you obviously can't fix a broken compiler by
recompiling with itself.

Kris

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