From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 12:07:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D0816A4C1 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C418043F75 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alden.pierre@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([138.89.12.247]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031019190745.UOVD5896.out011.verizon.net@verizon.net>; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:07:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3F91D526.9050806@verizon.net> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:04:54 -0400 From: Alden Louis-Pierre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030704 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Fleck References: <3F91BDB1.7020301@verizon.net> <20031019130325.A87394@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <20031019130325.A87394@grond.sourballs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [138.89.12.247] at Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:07:44 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup supfile question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:07:47 -0000 David Fleck wrote: >On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > > >>Does this mean if I were to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 and then >>CVSup my source all known security issues would be resolved for the >>particular FreeBSD I'm running? >> >> > >Not quite - it means that your sources would be up-to-date. You'd still >have to build and install the updated code. > > >-- >David Fleck >david.fleck@mchsi.com > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > So running my sample CVSup supfile would not patch my system for the security advisories from SA-03:08 - SA-0318(as of 10/19/03)? I'm under the impression this supfile would take care of security advisories, being that I'm updating the /usr directory. For everything to take in effect I must build and install my kernel as well? I'm looking through the FreeBSD Handbook and I don't see this extra step. Thank You Alden Louis-Pierre