From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 11:07:22 2004 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 30C4316A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:07:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from out007.verizon.net (out007pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70B943D46 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.120.219]) by out007.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040330190721.SWCC28276.out007.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:07:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4069C569.1000502@mac.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:07:21 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <38632096-81B7-11D8-A410-00039352A78A@calarts.edu> <20040329214036.GA2847@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040329214036.GA2847@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out007.verizon.net from [68.161.120.219] at Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:07:21 -0600 Subject: Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices? 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: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:07:22 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger 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