From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 7 12:58:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB4737B416 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:58:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g27Kwi826603 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:58:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:58:50 -0700 Subject: Re: question about patching a -stable system From: Ian To: freebsd-stable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200203072046.g27KkUi18325@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thursday 07 March 2002 08:59 am, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: >> 2) FreeBSD 4.x systems prior to the correction date: >> >> The following patch has been verified to apply to FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, >> 4.5-RELEASE, and 4.5-STABLE dated prior to the correction date. It >> may or may not apply to older, unsupported versions of FreeBSD. > > Would this patch apply to a -stable system from Dec. 27 (4.5-prerelease)? > I'd experiment if it wasn't a production machine :) > > -David > If you eyeball the patch you'll notice it's adding exactly one character on one line (a '>' becomes '>='). I think it'll apply just fine for you, but if it doesn't it'd be trivial to add the = by hand. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message