11.08.2020 14:21, Oleksandr Kryvulia wrote: > > Hi, > Last years all Security Advisories regarding base system in the "update your > vulnerable system via a source code patch " section recommends to rebuild a > whole world instead of an affected part of a base system. This is in a most > cases an overhead. > > For example 9 years old SA-11:04 [1] offers: > > b) Execute the following commands as root: > > # cd /usr/src > # patch < /path/to/patch > # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/compress > # make obj && make depend && make && make install > # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/gzip > # make obj && make depend && make && make install > > What is a reason we stop to do it? I understand that the preferred way now is > a binary upgrade. > Thank you.
Also binary upgrade is not an option for STABLE users. _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
