From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 12:50:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07C0737B424 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 80286 invoked by uid 100); 21 Apr 2001 19:50:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15073.58479.640534.304448@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:50:07 -0500 To: abdulla Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patching In-Reply-To: <76418464@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG abdulla types: > 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? You already have a full copy of the sources - they are on the 4 CD set. You may need to install those. You can apply the source patches to each command, then rebuild and reinstall just that command. As far as I know, no one provides binary patches for FreeBSD. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message