Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:44:27 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: ste@smxy.org Cc: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> Subject: Re: Downgrading 4.9-stable to 4.9-release-p3 Message-ID: <200403181144.27649.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <4059F0B8.2010903@smxy.org> References: <20040318180927.GD18657@therub.org> <200403181047.30188.kstewart@owt.com> <4059F0B8.2010903@smxy.org>
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:55 am, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > How are you going to include the changed libraries in modules you > > don't rebuild? The advisory was even more specific, i.e., rebuild > > all ports that use OpenSSL. > > That's not exactly what it said. It said to rebuild all statically > linked ports and 3rd-party apps: > > "Note that any statically linked applications that are not part of > the base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party > sources) must be recompiled." > > Dynamically linked programs do not have to be rebuilt. > Ok, I over shot. I do that now and again :). My question is how is the typical sysadmin going to tell which ones were built dynamically. Most sysadmins I have met have never written anything deeper than perl or shell scripts. They hire people that program and use their expertise in different areas where things have to run. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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