Subject: Re: Updating of ssh and sendmail
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/28/2002 12:10:17
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>[1] I have been working on binary updates for security advisories (like
>ssh, lpd, and gzip)> Basically, each binary update backs up the current
>files and places the new ones. It can also back out (reverse) the changes.
>It is a lot easier and quicker to use a binary update (especially for
>several systems) than to retrieve source, apply patches, build and
>install.

*Please* use the mechanisms which syspkg already provides when doing
this for -current (and 1.6 and later).
- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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