From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 24 15:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE34037B406 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15aPxT-0000Cr-00; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:01:47 -0600 Message-ID: <3B86DCDB.FBF5AD91@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:01:47 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Sendmail References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010824084523.048664e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010824090638.04896420@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 09:13 AM 8/24/2001, Wes Peters wrote: > > >I you have a machine with a current build on it, you should be able to > >build from the sendmail directory, then install the binaries on all of > >your machines. > > You're assuming that the machine has more than a current build.... It > needs to have full sources. I rarely install full sources on any machine; > too much code that will never be touched. Unless I'm specifically hacking > on part of FreeBSD, it's binaries only. Right. In your case, where you have a number of customers, you may find it useful to keep one of your own machines up to date with either -STABLE or the RELEASE_4_3 branch, so you can build up to date binaries. You could then install these binaries in your client machines, using a network, a USB Zip drive, or whatever transport presents itself. This is essentially what is found in the binary update packages. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message