Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

[Joshua Lokken]

* Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> [2004-03-30 11:14]:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> >>On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >>>If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the
> >>>mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I
> >>>want? (see above)
> >>
> >>Generally one can ignore doing the mergemaster simply for a security
> >>patch.
> >
> >Unless, of course, the security patch fixes problems in /etc files that
> >mergemaster *must* update.  It's not very difficult to run mergemaster.
> >I wouldn't recomment avoiding it altogether.   [ ... ]
> 
> Oh, I agree with you: I think mergemaster is a useful tool, and I don't 
> think it's very difficult to use.
> 
> Reasonable people disagree, however.  In particular, people who aren't 
> familiar with diff generally find mergemaster to be incomprehensible.  :-)
> 

>From a [relative] newbie; it's only incomprehensible the first time or
two. 

-- 
Joshua

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