From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 14:10:16 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 A523816A502 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccmmhc02.asp.att.net (sccmmhc02.asp.att.net [204.127.203.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79BC43F85 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from grond (12-216-14-105.client.mchsi.com[12.216.14.105]) by sccmmhc02.asp.att.net (sccmmhc02) with SMTP id <20031019211012mm2003b9bje>; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:10:12 +0000 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:10:12 -0500 (CDT) From: David Fleck Sender: dcf@grond.sourballs.org To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <3F91D526.9050806@verizon.net> Message-ID: <20031019160344.M89743@grond.sourballs.org> References: <3F91BDB1.7020301@verizon.net> <20031019130325.A87394@grond.sourballs.org> <3F91D526.9050806@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 21:10:16 -0000 On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > 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. Running cvsup will update the files in /usr/src: # prefix=/usr # This specifies where to place the requested files. A # setting of "/usr" will place all of the files requested # in "/usr/src" (e.g., "/usr/src/bin", "/usr/src/lib"). # The prefix directory must exist in order to run CVSup. but these are the source files, not binaries. To update your system, you need to build and install the resulting binaries. Read sections 21.3 and 21.4 of the handbook. (The process is not as scary as it sounds, but you do have to be careful.) -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com