From openbsd-misc Thu Aug 22 01:52:42 2002 From: Gerardo Santana Gomez Garrido Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:52:42 +0000 To: openbsd-misc Subject: Re: Creating update tarballs X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=102998130601160 On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 06:01:07PM -0700, tedu wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Gerardo Santana Gomez Garrido wrote: > > > "Note that programs that are linked statically will not pick up the > > change unless they are rebuilt. This includes the contents of /bin > > and /sbin." > > > > I've always wondered why inexact information is given in these cases. > > You want a list of every static program on the system included with the > patch? There are too many. It varies by architecture. Some of them > don't need rebuilding. Nobody has time to go and pick them out one by one > into a nicely sorted list. Even if a list were made, it's not going to be > accurate for many installations, notably mine. The comment is inexact. If it leads people to get vulnerable binaries in their systems, it is dangerous too. If a list of programs is not feasible, a reference to the procedure for building this list is desirable. It's just that I don't think inexact information fits in the OpenBSD style. > > -- > Mediocrity is a sin. so is to provide inexact information, IMO. -- Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido http://www.openbsd.org.mx/~santana/ OpenBSD México