Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 08/28/03

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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, stable@freebsd.org

    At 12:01 28/08/2003 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
    >Will this fix everything that needs to be recompiled to avoid the realpath()
    >bug?

       Yes, that's the whole point of FreeBSD Update. Read my paper, or come
    to BSDCon, for details; but rest assured that if you start with a binary
    install from the official FTP or ISO releases, and don't recompile any of
    the world locally, FreeBSD Update will update any binaries which are
    affected by modifications in the security branch. (Provided, of course,
    that I'm building updates for the release in question -- I'm doing so for
    4.7-RELEASE and 4.8-RELEASE.)
       Because FreeBSD Update identifies the particular binaries affected by a
    source code change and only distributes those, it also saves bandwidth --
    updating a 4.8-RELEASE system using FreeBSD Update uses less than half the
    bandwidth required to update the source tree with cvsup.

    Colin Percival

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