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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:19:46 -0800
From:      "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org>
To:        "'Colin Percival'" <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet
Message-ID:  <000a01c53427$517fb520$142a15ac@Spud6000>
In-Reply-To: <42487991.3080409@freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival wrote:
> Will Yardley wrote:
> > 
> > Normally, the security advisories just have you rebuild the
> > program in question - wouldn't that have sufficed here?
> 
> For historical reasons, the telnet build is rather messy: Depending
> upon which options you have set in /etc/make.conf, telnet might need
> to be rebuilt from one of four different directories.

You mean, there isn't a cushy Makefile somewhere with a target to
automatically choose the correct version to build based on the contents of
/etc/make.conf?  *gasp*  Horrors!

Scary.  Methinks I've gotten soft in a FreeBSD world where you can do
anything you want as long as you know the appropriate target. :)




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