Re: Open up 2.1.6-RELEASE/[ports|packages] please?

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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Date
11 Feb 1997 00:06:20
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Re: Open up 2.1.6-RELEASE/[ports|packages] please?
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> I'm sure the security problem doesn't also effect the packages and ports,
> could we have access to them as well? Some of the -current ports simply
> do not work in 2.1.x because of the libc versions..

Then fix them :)

cp /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0

Yes, you can do this without blowing stuff up. Only a few functions are
affected, and I have yet to find one that breaks because of this fix.

Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major



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