Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:16:15 -0700 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> Subject: Re: Patch vs. Upgrade Message-ID: <35c231bf0510131016x7ae550e7p2ca3a3c0b838df3f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35c231bf0510121317s4fac9a7bq545639d169db06eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F8316489986467895@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> <35c231bf0510121155h55f8fae8r93fb25a9f01ca3f4@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420510121243w10326da7p6454f499a0050d1b@mail.gmail.com> <35c231bf0510121317s4fac9a7bq545639d169db06eb@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/12/05, David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> wrote: > On 10/12/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's just not true. Cvsupping to something like > > RELENG_5_4 will do exactly the same thing as > > a patch, only it's the hassle-free way. You see > > a sec-advisory, you type "cvsup -g -L 2 mysup" > > recompile what's suggested in the advisory, or > > the whole world - and you're done. > > cvsupping to RELENG_5_4 will include all of those patches, not just > the one you just read about. So if you had to avoid installing a patch > for some reason (you had a local solution, or something, it happens > sometimes) then you need to avoid using the cvsup method. I just tried this again to verify. cvsuping to RELENG_5_4 gives you 5.4-STABLE, which includes _many_ things not found in the 5.4-RELEASE-p?? branch. I'm not saying people shouldn't upgrade to 5.4-STABLE (although I do think efforts should be directed towards including bugfixes in the 5.4-RELEASE-p?? branch) but that they should be aware that cvsup'ing to RELENG_5_4 will give them a very different result to patching the specific security advisory patches.
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