From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 10 14:16:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from poontang.schulte.org (poontang.schulte.org [209.134.156.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D99437B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from christopher@schulte.org) Received: from schulte-laptop.schulte.org (nb60.netbriefings.com [64.183.199.60]) by poontang.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3BDD146A; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:16:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010710161044.03f5eae0@pop.schulte.org> X-Sender: schulte@pop.schulte.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:16:21 -0500 To: Alex Popa From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01: Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010710234707.A510@ldc.ro> References: <200107101402.f6AE2FK63559@freefall.freebsd.org> <200107101402.f6AE2FK63559@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:47 PM 7/10/2001 +0300, Alex Popa wrote: >Since the next point seems not to work (patch was not on FTP at the time >of writing of my mail), is it safe to just cvsup to the latest -STABLE >and recompile only the kernel? Or is there a need to rebuild the entire >world? (come to think of it, how can I tell by myself, because >/usr/src/UPDATING mentions nothing, for now) Installing just a new kernel is not supported. The recommended approach is to install world and kernel at the same time to ensure any new hooks between kernel and libraries/binaries are present. A kernel only install may work, but the older your -STABLE was the more chances there are of breakage. As for differences between RELENG_4_3 before and after the new commit, I'd say that's a safe candidate not to require a full world install. I just built a new kernel and installed it. No problems. >Is this going to be commited to RELENG_4_3_RELEASE (it does seem like a >critical update to me)? It has been committed to RELENG_4_3, the security patch branch. >------------+------------------------------------------ >Alex Popa, | "Artificial Intelligence is >razor@ldc.ro| no match for Natural Stupidity" >------------+------------------------------------------ >"It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. >It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message