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Date:      Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:50:07 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        abdulla <almuhairi@pop.softhome.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patching
Message-ID:  <15073.58479.640534.304448@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <76418464@toto.iv>

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abdulla <almuhairi@pop.softhome.net> 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.

	<mike
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