keeping my freebsd secure...
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 14 15:17:04 GMT 2004
On Jun 12, 2004, at 5:37 PM, Doug White wrote:
[ ...with regard to portupgrade handling library dependencies... ]
> Note that portupgrade hoards old shared library versions in
> /usr/(local/)?lib/compat, so as long as the library version changes,
> you won't get bit by these types of incompatible upgrades.
Of course, if the reason the library was updated was due to a security
problem, having binaries link against the old version means that they
are probably vulnerable to whatever the issue is...
--
-Chuck
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