From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 13:32:40 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 CC43037B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.442spot.com (adsl-208-191-192-100.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [208.191.192.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E719543FD7 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shooverfbn@442spot.com) Received: from cutlass442 (unknown [192.168.2.103]) by mail.442spot.com (Postfix) with SMTP id CE49C25 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:32:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <00e801c2df71$047ca010$6702a8c0@cutlass442> From: "Stephen Hoover" To: Subject: Updating parts of the system.. Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:33:21 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 I was wondering if it was feasible to update just parts of the FreeBSD system without updating the whole thing...for instance the recent OpenSSL update - is it possible to update just OpenSSL on say a FreeBSD 4.3 box without updating the whole system? From what I have read it doesn't look to be possible, (outside of installing from ports, but I want to upgrade what actually came with the FreeBSD install) but I just wanted to check with the experts. Thanks! Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message