unfortunately, this is the dark side of FreeBSD security patch
management :) and I think also the main reason FreeBSD isn't so widely
deployed into enterprise environments. It's ok for hacking or managing
few boxes but try to imagine how to manage security on hundreds of them
this way. :(
on the other side (bright side :) you can try to use unofficial and
often somewhat slowly updating solutions such as bsdupdate
(www.bsdupdates.com) or freebsd-update (from ports tree).
currently, FreeBSD just don't have a mechanism to handle security
advisories in quick way.
any suggestions/corrections ?
j.
jimmy@inet-solutions.be wrote:
> Quoting FreeBSD Security Advisories <security-advisories@freebsd.org>:
>
>
>>=============================================================================
>>FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl Security Advisory
>> The FreeBSD Project
>
> [..]
>
>>c) Recompile the operating system as described in
>><URL:
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >.
>
>
> Is there any reason why one would need to compile the whole operating system?
> I can understand that static linked apps need to be recompiled, but which
> are there actually any at all (and linked against openssl)?
>
> Kind regards,
> Jimmy Scott
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