From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 11 13:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD7137B556; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA41678; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Derek Werthmuller Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applying patches with out a compiler In-Reply-To: <7A71D0D43B9ED1119EC10008C756C3042F76FB@ctg-nt.ctg.albany.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 May 2000, Derek Werthmuller wrote: > I'm interested in applying standard "Release" versions of FreeBSD with > out using a compiler in the system. I generaly don't advise leaving a > working compiler in say a firewall or a hardened system. I know that > I can have a seperate system that I can use to connect via CVS and use > that to update the hardened systems. But doesn't that just keep my > sources up to date and I still need to build/build world every so > often? Is there another way to apply the security related patches ? Compile on another machine, copy it over. For example, if you want to update the entire machine to -stable, you can do a buildworld on one machine, NFS mount the /usr/src and /usr/obj on the target, and do make installworld there. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message