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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl
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At 00:06 04/10/2003 +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
> > c) Recompile the operating system as described in
> > <URL: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >.
>
>from what I can see no API is changed with this patch so wouldn't it be
>possible to recompile libssl/libcrypto and install only them instead of
>rebuilding the complete base system as suggested (assuming nothing in
>the base system is statically linked against one of the two) ?

   I think that's probably enough, but I'm not sure; a couple hours from 
now I should be able to say for certain (at least for RELENG_4_7) as the 
latest FreeBSD Update build finishes.

Colin Percival