Downgrading 4.9-stable to 4.9-release-p3

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Thu Mar 18 11:44:32 PST 2004


On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:55 am, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Kent Stewart wrote:
> > How are you going to include the changed libraries in modules you
> > don't rebuild? The advisory was even more specific, i.e., rebuild
> > all ports that use OpenSSL.
>
> That's not exactly what it said. It said to rebuild all statically
> linked ports and 3rd-party apps:
>
> "Note that any statically linked applications that are not part of
> the base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party
> sources) must be recompiled."
>
> Dynamically linked programs do not have to be rebuilt.
>

Ok, I over shot. I do that now and again :).

My question is how is the typical sysadmin going to tell which ones were 
built dynamically. Most sysadmins I have met have never written 
anything deeper than perl or shell scripts. They hire people that 
program and use their expertise in different areas where things have to 
run.

Kent

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