Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

[Brett Glass]

Will this fix everything that needs to be recompiled to avoid the realpath()
bug? I'd assumed that I'd have to get a fresh build to deal with the problem.

--Brett

At 11:56 AM 8/28/2003, Colin Percival wrote:
  
>At 00:38 28/08/2003 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>>FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE isn't due out until the end of next month. What's the best
>>way to install a relatively stable build of FreeBSD, with all known security
>>issues fixed, in the interim? I'd very much NOT like to do a CVS update and
>>rebuild the world on these machines, as hard drive space and time available
>>for installation will be limited.
>
>1. Install FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
>2. pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/security/freebsd-update-1.3.tgz
>3. mv /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf
>4. /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
>5. /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install
>
>  (Ok, dumb question: Why is my pkg_message not part of the package on ftp.freebsd.org?  It works when I `make package` locally.)
>
>Colin Percival
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