From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 10:54:47 2003 Return-Path: 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 1C2BF37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E38FE43F3F for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 84763 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Apr 2003 17:54:43 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:54:42 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Paul Hoffman Message-ID: <20030409175442.GA84729@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Hoffman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applying FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail to 4.8? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:54:47 -0000 On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:45:27AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. The release notes for FreeBSD 4.8 do not indicate > that FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail has been applied to it. However, when The release notes may not mention it, but the errata does. FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail is included in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, so there is no need to apply it manually. > I download the patch and give the 'patch' command, I see: > > Hmm... Looks like a new-style context diff to me... > The text leading up to this was: > -------------------------- > |Index: contrib/sendmail/src/conf.c > |=================================================================== > |RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/sendmail/src/conf.c,v > |retrieving revision 1.5.2.11 > |retrieving revision 1.5.2.11.2.1 > |diff -c -r1.5.2.11 -r1.5.2.11.2.1 > |*** contrib/sendmail/src/conf.c 3 Sep 2002 01:50:15 -0000 > 1.5.2.11 > |--- contrib/sendmail/src/conf.c 29 Mar 2003 20:13:03 -0000 > 1.5.2.11.2.1 > -------------------------- > Patching file contrib/sendmail/src/conf.c using Plan A... > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [y] > > What does this mean? Should I answer 'y' here? It means the patch has already been applied, and you shouldn't try to patch it again. (Answering 'y' would be a bad idea, since the patch program would then *remove* the patch, in the mistaken belief that patch had been created the wrong way around.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se