Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:45:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexei Betin <betin@belcom.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the way freebsd to be patched is sick Message-ID: <20010130184508.H54217@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <006f01c08ab3$8fa35900$4ac08dd5@belcom.ru>; from betin@belcom.ru on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:55:37PM %2B0300 References: <006f01c08ab3$8fa35900$4ac08dd5@belcom.ru>
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--+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:55:37PM +0300, Alexei Betin wrote: > I don't want to start a flame, but... >=20 > whoes that crazy idea to patch os by recompiling it? for many > reasons I don't want to have compiler and source tree installed on > my servers. I don't want to wait while it's being recompiled for > several hours just for purpose of new `bind` to be installed. I > don't want to hold my breath seing how freshly compiled os restarts > on a production system... Sorry, a binary patch system requires hardware resources, code and ongoing maintenance which no-one in the FreeBSD community has so far provided. Unless you can help, you're stuck with what we have. Kris --+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6d3w0Wry0BWjoQKURAjseAKDXLCuyv/GuXqVaQgfx/ewO1uDbYQCbBk7Y xetnQRu//Dv4DIwsP+qOPyo= =h/47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+jhVVhN62yS6hEJ8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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