Re: patching holes

From: Pizik Ilya (polzun@ultra.v.gz.ru)
Date: 04/25/02 

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:40:17 +0400
From: Pizik Ilya <polzun@ultra.v.gz.ru>
To: VB <swive@getnet.com>

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:39:11AM -0700, VB wrote:
V> Hellow,
V>
V> I just installed 4.4 Release. Since this version has been out for a while, I wish to patch all security problems that have been discovered since release date and now. But I don't want to add any other ports/packages.
V>
V> How can I "fully" patch my system without upgrading any other ports/packages?
V>
V> That is, I want to add ***all and only*** security fixes to my system; how can do that efficiently?
V>
V> TIA,
V>
V> vberic
V>
V> PS--I am aware that some problems can be fixed only by upgrading to 4.5, e.g., stdio. I just want to patch 4.4.
V>
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Cvsup to RELENG_4_4
here is example of supfile:
*default host=cvsup.freebsd.org
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress

## Main Source Tree
src-all

Also you have to make world. 

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With respect, Pizik Ilya.
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