On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:19 pm, Jon Reynolds wrote:
| I am new to freebsd and I need to update PHP because of the security hole
| found in it. I believe that I can use a diff file to update it without
| having to completely redownload and recompile it, is this right? I also
| have never tried this before and I can't find good documentation on how to
| do it. Can someone point me to a good doc or howto?
No, a diff file applies to source, not exeutable, so if you have a diff file,
you'll need to get the source.
I recommend the following:
pkg_info <name of package> # eg, pkg_info 'php*' to verify
pkg_delete <name of package> # what this will do
cd /usr/ports/*/<name of port> # if ambiguous, figure out which you want
make patch
cd work
cd <directory you find there where the source code lives>
path < diff-file
cd /usr/ports/*/<name of port>
make install
That said, it's entirely likely that this will have already been applied to
the port, in which case you can just cvsup (or just grab the updated port
from the FTP site), and then
pkg_delete 'foo*'
cd /usr/ports/*/whatever
make install
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| Jon
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