Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:36:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Brendan Conoboy <synk@swcp.com> To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: jgreco@ns.sol.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world clobbers (was Re: some nice advice...) Message-ID: <199906181936.NAA17158@kitsune.swcp.com>
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> > Er, don't you upgrade from source when there's a security problem in > > userland but no new binary distribution? I do. > > Good grief, no! *IF* the bug is in a service that you are using, > you update the source, build and test the new service on an off-line > workstation or server, and when you're certain the changes are > reliable, move the new binaries to the target server. Oh, I see. We're having a semantical difficulty. I would still call that upgrading from source. I thought the original poster meant that one ought to to wait for 3.2-release to come out when there was a serious bug in 3.1, to essentially leave the source out of it. -Brendan (synk@swcp.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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