From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 23:19:47 2003 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 7559B37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646CB43F79 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:19:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18gJqF-000Hp3-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:19:31 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18gJpw-000Hot-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:19:13 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18gJps-000MtP-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:19:08 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18gJpr-0004Ti-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:19:07 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Willie Viljoen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where can i find the security errata and patch section? Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:19:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3E40827B.30106@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <3E40827B.30106@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302050918.39722.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18gJpw-000Hot-00*fI8LdVhDRHw* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:18, sweetleaf wrote: > I coming from openbsd, and have security question about patching. > > On openbsd we can review the up2date errata and if there is a security > issue for which a patch exists, we can download the individual patch an= d > use the..... patch -p0 command to patch the src. and then just rebuil= d > the binary / install binary. > > The actual page is http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html The errata for the present production release (4.7), including security=20 advisories, can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/errata.html You most likely won't find manual patches though, FreeBSD is patched and=20 upgraded with the CVSup system. This insures that the entire code base is= =20 upgraded, to prevent dependancy problems and eliminate cruft. To get cvsup, as root: cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup; make install clean; Then edit the examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ and use them to upgr= ade=20 the system. More detailed information on the use of CVSup can be found in= =20 the FreeBSD Handbook (which should be installed in=20 /usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html) > > > I cant find this on the freebsd page and was wondering if such a errata > w/patch exists for this project as i don't have time to cvs and make > world often and would just rather patch things myself. > > Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message