unfortunately, this is the dark side of FreeBSD security patch management :) and I think also the main reason FreeBSD isn't so widely deployed into enterprise environments. It's ok for hacking or managing few boxes but try to imagine how to manage security on hundreds of them this way. :(

on the other side (bright side :) you can try to use unofficial and often somewhat slowly updating solutions such as bsdupdate (www.bsdupdates.com) or freebsd-update (from ports tree).

currently, FreeBSD just don't have a mechanism to handle security advisories in quick way.

any suggestions/corrections ?

j.

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Quoting FreeBSD Security Advisories <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


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FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl                                    Security Advisory
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c) Recompile the operating system as described in
<URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >.


Is there any reason why one would need to compile the whole operating system?
I can understand that static linked apps need to be recompiled, but which
are there actually any at all (and linked against openssl)?

Kind regards,
Jimmy Scott

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