Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:01:14 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030828120019.0324b6a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030828103403.02d683a8@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <200308280638.AAA19221@lariat.org>
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Will this fix everything that needs to be recompiled to avoid the realpath() bug? I'd assumed that I'd have to get a fresh build to deal with the problem. --Brett At 11:56 AM 8/28/2003, Colin Percival wrote: >At 00:38 28/08/2003 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >>FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE isn't due out until the end of next month. What's the best >>way to install a relatively stable build of FreeBSD, with all known security >>issues fixed, in the interim? I'd very much NOT like to do a CVS update and >>rebuild the world on these machines, as hard drive space and time available >>for installation will be limited. > >1. Install FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE >2. pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/security/freebsd-update-1.3.tgz >3. mv /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf >4. /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch >5. /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install > > (Ok, dumb question: Why is my pkg_message not part of the package on ftp.freebsd.org? It works when I `make package` locally.) > >Colin Percival > >
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