From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 00:06:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06774 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06769 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01228; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:06:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:06:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open up 2.1.6-RELEASE/[ports|packages] please? In-Reply-To: <199702062306.QAA12108@cold.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I'm sure the security problem doesn't also effect the packages and ports, > could we have access to them as well? Some of the -current ports simply > do not work in 2.1.x because of the libc versions.. Then fix them :) cp /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 Yes, you can do this without blowing stuff up. Only a few functions are affected, and I have yet to find one that breaks because of this fix. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major