Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:40:35 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: "V. Jones" <vjones62@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Patch question Message-ID: <11778415.1064691636010.JavaMail.root@skeeter.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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Thanks to everyone who responded - my question really had more to do with applying patches as they are presented in the various security advisories. It sounds like most of you don't do it that way; it sounds like you track freebsd-stable using cvsup. However, section 21.2.2.2 of the handbook seems to advise against doing this when all you want to do is apply security fixes: "While it is true that security fixes also go into the FreeBSD-STABLE branch, you do not need to track FreeBSD-STABLE to do this. Every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to fix the problem for the releases it affects [1] , and tracking an entire development branch just for security reasons is likely to bring in a lot of unwanted changes as well." My intention is to apply the patches as instructed in the advisories. I'll resolve my issues with pgp so that I can validate the files first, then apply them one at a time.
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