Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:16:44 +0200 From: Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Patches Message-ID: <20030623091643.GC452@devil.stderror.at> In-Reply-To: <5BC51B1E-A558-11D7-B54A-003065C4E486@escape.gr> References: <5BC51B1E-A558-11D7-B54A-003065C4E486@escape.gr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:54:54AM +0300, Jim Xochellis wrote: > I need to apply some security patches to my FreeBSD(i386) 4.7-RELEASE > box and I am concerned about the possibility that I could actually harm > my system while trying to apply this patches. (I am not a Unix guru > actually) i would recommend updating with cvsup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and following the patch-branch: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html in your case RELENG_4_7. but i do not know if the latest security patches are backported to RELENG_4_7. maybe someone else on the list is more familiar with the various cvs branches. if the patches are _not_ backported i would recomment upgrading to RELENG_4_8 as mentioned in the excellent handbook. hth, toni -- Behandle die Menschen, als wären sie, was sie sein | toni at stderror dot at sollten, und du wirst ihnen helfen, zu werden, was | Toni Schmidbauer sie sein können. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+9sV6u/mjSj7RMocRAuBXAJ0aPcjcGvNadc0VPyyTA5DGP2nBswCfZVfA rDwfzTFRqmx2o8uBn+6MXGI= =og5O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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