From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 9:48:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dannyboy.worksforfood.com (pool-207-68-84-222.char.east.verizon.net [207.68.84.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCACE37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:48:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by dannyboy.worksforfood.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C41445A554; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:48:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:48:25 -0500 From: Daniel Harris To: Mike Meyer Cc: Kevin Golding , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patching systems using pkg_add Message-ID: <20011201124825.A12942@dannyboy.worksforfood.com> References: <87471076@toto.iv> <15369.3408.391407.207170@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15369.3408.391407.207170@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:03:12AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:03:12AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > I think I agree with you. Installing the new world will presumably > overwrite the binary patches, so the information in /var/db/pkg is > unneeded. Sounds about right to me, but I don't have firsthand experiences with the binary patches. > You might try asking security@freebsd.org - I think that's the address > of the security officer - to see what they think. security-officer@freebsd.org is the security officer team, security@freebsd.org is the freebsd-security mailing list. -- Daniel Harris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message