Error applying libarchive.patch

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 07:25:35 UTC 2006


On 11/9/06, Simon Biber <simonbiber at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I tried installing FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive
>
> The patch failed. Am I doing something wrong? Is it not designed for my
> system?
>
> oz# uname -a
> FreeBSD oz.caah.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Oct 12
> 07:40:47 EST 2006     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>

According to Simon, this security advisory doesn't affect 6.1-RELEASE.

On 11/8/06, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2006.11.08 10:36:02 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > Maybe this is an obvious question, but libarchive has been in the
> > system since 5.3, but this issue only affects RELENG_6?  So anyone
> > tracking RELENG_6_1 isn't affected?
>
> Correct, the bug was introduced after 6.1 was branched.
>
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Scot

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