Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:45:52 -0800 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices? Message-ID: <20040330194352.GA1816@cs025_2k> In-Reply-To: <4069C569.1000502@mac.com> References: <38632096-81B7-11D8-A410-00039352A78A@calarts.edu> <BCBB1077-81BC-11D8-9A00-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040329214036.GA2847@gothmog.gr> <4069C569.1000502@mac.com>
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* Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> [2004-03-30 11:14]: > 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. :-) > >From a [relative] newbie; it's only incomprehensible the first time or two. -- Joshua A woman should have compassion. -- Kirk, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2
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