RE: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet

From: Darren Pilgrim (dmp_at_bitfreak.org)
Date: 03/29/05

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    To: "'Colin Percival'" <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:19:46 -0800

    Colin Percival wrote:
    > Will Yardley wrote:
    > >
    > > Normally, the security advisories just have you rebuild the
    > > program in question - wouldn't that have sufficed here?
    >
    > For historical reasons, the telnet build is rather messy: Depending
    > upon which options you have set in /etc/make.conf, telnet might need
    > to be rebuilt from one of four different directories.

    You mean, there isn't a cushy Makefile somewhere with a target to
    automatically choose the correct version to build based on the contents of
    /etc/make.conf? *gasp* Horrors!

    Scary. Methinks I've gotten soft in a FreeBSD world where you can do
    anything you want as long as you know the appropriate target. :)

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