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Date:      Sat, 1 Mar 1997 13:48:34 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        gnat@frii.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.7 requires a rebuild of /usr/local binaries?
Message-ID:  <199703011248.NAA18698@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199702211734.KAA03840@elara.frii.com> from "gnat@frii.com" at "Feb 21, 97 10:34:25 am"

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gnat@frii.com wrote:
> I've just installed 2.1.7 (upgrading from 2.1.5) on my own machine,
> prior to upgrading all our servers.  The advisory re: the setlocale
> bug said to rebuild all statically linked binaries and probably all
> dynamically linked ones too.
> 
> Going to the 2.1.7-RELEASE/packages directory, however, I see it's
> just a link to the 2.1.6 packages directory.  Does this mean that I
> don't have to rebuild all my binaries after all?

Indeed. A scan through all ports revealed apparently no suid binaries
taht are statically linked. The only problems would arise with these
kind of binaries.

-Guido



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