Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
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what security problem? add potato r3 has all the current libc security fixes. or is there a new one im not aware of?
Oops. I'm running r2 and there was a security alert in April for glibc 2.1.3-x, for some x < 17. I guess I should have mentioned that earlier :-(.
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if you have to ask these questions i think you should not be compiling libc.
[more snippage] Perhaps, but then I would not be able to do some of the things that I do want to. Besides, it is helpful to my learning more about Linux. Mostly, I would like to have some idea about how much risk I am taking. The documentation in my /usr/doc/ is not particularly helpful as it merely points to the existence of conflict about policy, and it is six months old. If there is a policy, I do want to know, so I know if I am about to break policy, before I break it. I do know that since I plan to recompile everything else as well, I don't expect too many strange header mismatch errors. Cheers, Kin Hoong _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
