From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 4:27:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omail2.emirates.net.ae (omail2.emirates.net.ae [194.170.168.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B1A37B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 04:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maihadah@emirates.net.ae) Received: from pmail3.emirates.net.ae by omail2.emirates.net.ae (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.10.12.16.25.p8) with ESMTP id <0GC500B3J32Q3K@omail2.emirates.net.ae> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:11:14 +0400 (GST) Received: from m8q0k0 (taa049.emirates.net.ae [213.42.164.49]) by pmail3.emirates.net.ae (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.10.12.16.25.p8) with SMTP id <0GC5000QX32PJ7@pmail3.emirates.net.ae> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:11:14 +0400 (GST) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:09:10 +0400 From: Abdulla Subject: patching To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <000901c0c98a$53b4c6c0$31a42ad5@m8q0k0> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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