From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 4:23: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linif.org (www.linif.org [204.228.204.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2046137B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 04:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dotslash@linif.org) Received: (qmail 10061 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2001 11:22:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cpu563) (195.229.53.55) by www.linif.org with SMTP; 21 Apr 2001 11:22:53 -0000 Message-ID: <002101c0ca55$43262c60$2903010a@atg.altayer.com> From: "dotslash" To: , "abdulla" References: <4.3.0.20010420145715.00a7d940@pop.softhome.net> Subject: Re: Patching Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:21:09 +0400 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG as i see it you can do it two ways: 1. have the complete sources tree and do a file by file patch or 2. use cvsup and get updated to the latest build either way you will need the complete source tree. the speed will be dependent on how fast your system is. ----- Original Message ----- From: "abdulla" To: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Patching > I bought The Complete FreeBSD book with the 4 CDs ( my way of supporting > them :) ) from what I read, I need to have a full copy of the source in > order to update FreeBSD. I have seen security patches in the FTP sites, > and all I want is to apply them. Do I have to do a one day compiling to > apply these patches? Can't I just patch FreeBSD with a command similar to > rpm -Uvh xxxx.rpm in linux? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message