----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Glibc vulnerability . . . implications for LFS?
> DJ Lucas wrote: > > On 10/26/2010 04:51 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> Thanks DJ! Was that in conjunction with the original patch I submitted, > >> or instead of? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Matt. > >> > > Yes, both patches were applied. > > > > Also, just for kicks, I did a live update of Glibc on system running > > Gnome at the time. It had been a while since I had done an in-place > > update of glibc but no problems as usual. Of course I rebooted pretty > > quick, but I haven't had any issues with doing an in-place update since > > before NPTL IIRC. I don't know if I'd change versions on a running > > system without dropping to 1, but same with a patch is OK still. > > Is there a special technique or did you just do a make install? > You need to restart any daemon and last telinit -u It is possible to look how debian do in libc.postinst http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/debhelper.in/libc.postinst Only CVE-2010-10-3847 patch is actually commited. Gilles -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
