Do I really need to rebuilding *everything*

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Mar 20 20:00:38 PST 2004


In the last episode (Mar 20), Rilindo Foster said:
> Okay, so there is this openssl vulnerability out there and I need to
> patch the OS and then do the makeworld/buildworld.
> 
> Question is, can I get away with rebuilding my entire ports
> collection? With about 300 apps complied, I really don't want to do
> it. ;_;

You only need to rebuild the ports that use the openssl libs and link
statically.  My guess is that would be zero.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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