From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 6:33: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDB537B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 06:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([212.228.234.119]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16ABCI-000EyV-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:32:55 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:31:20 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: patching systems using pkg_add MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having used the binary patches from a couple of security advisories on a 4.3 release system I now find myself pondering what to do next. The issue is that I'm intending to cvsup and I'm not sure how to deal with the patches. I figure I shouldn't run pkg_delete after I upgrade since I'm paranoid I'll delete something I need from the new setup and I'd rather not just leave them sitting around for no reason. That leaves 2 options in my mind, firstly I could run pkg_delete before doing make world etc. or maybe I could just upgrade then manually delete the entries from /var/db/pkg I think I prefer the sound of the latter since it seems the least intrusive and I feel it should reduce the chance or troubles. So, how far off the mark am I? Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message