Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:07:21 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices? Message-ID: <4069C569.1000502@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040329214036.GA2847@gothmog.gr> References: <38632096-81B7-11D8-A410-00039352A78A@calarts.edu> <BCBB1077-81BC-11D8-9A00-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040329214036.GA2847@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: >> On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: [ ... ] >>> If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the >>> mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I >>> want? (see above) >> >> Generally one can ignore doing the mergemaster simply for a security >> patch. > > Unless, of course, the security patch fixes problems in /etc files that > mergemaster *must* update. It's not very difficult to run mergemaster. > I wouldn't recomment avoiding it altogether. [ ... ] Oh, I agree with you: I think mergemaster is a useful tool, and I don't think it's very difficult to use. Reasonable people disagree, however. In particular, people who aren't familiar with diff generally find mergemaster to be incomprehensible. :-) -- -Chuck
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