[erlang-questions] erlang-questions Digest, Vol 354, Issue 11

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On Jan 3, 2018 6:00 AM, <erlang-questions-request@REDACTED> wrote:

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>    1. Re:  Windows Patch Packages? (Kenneth Lundin)
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> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:48:23 +0100
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> By mistake my answer was only sent to Peter Tirell, should have been sent
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> Here it is
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> The pre built Windows installers on erlang.org are only provided for the
> planned releases and patch packages, they are not provided for "emergency"
> patches
>  between or after the planned releases. 18.3 is the latest pre built
> Windows installer for the OTP 18 release track.
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> In order to apply 18.3.4.7 you have to build from source.
>
> Another possibility if it is tricky to build on Windows, is that you build
> from source on Linux and then copy the only application changed by the
> patch to your Windows system under ERl_ROOT/lib or somewhere else if you
> point it out with erl -pa <Path>
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> Since OTP 20.2 is just a patch it only lists in its README what has been
> fixed since the last patch , which was 20.1.7 containing a fix for
> OTP-14748. You can look i the release notes for the ssl application in OTP
> 20.2 and find that OTP-14748 is mentioned there.
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> So there is a Windows build, namely 20.2 which includes the patch you are
> looking for.
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> /Regards Kenneth, Erlang/OTP Ericsson
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> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Peter Tirrell <ptirrell@REDACTED> wrote:
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> > Hello all,
> >
> > I saw an existing recent thread about general patch packages but didn't
> > necessarily want to hijack that thread.  I currently am using OTP 18.2.1
> on
> > Windows but became aware of security advisory CVE-2017-1000385 (
> > https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000385#VulnChangeHistoryDiv)
> >
> > It looks like I can get OTP 18.3.4.7+ and have the advisory addressed,
> but
> > I'm unclear on how to do so. The downloads page simply lists an 18.3
> > download and doesn't list the fixed OTP bug number in the readme.  The
> > earlier thread I saw seemed to imply that Windows builds on the downloads
> > page aren't updated.
> >
> > So my question is - how do I apply the latest Windows patched builds?
> Are
> > there patched Windows release builds available somewhere?  If I download
> a
> > version from the downloads page, will that be the latest available major
> > point version, including any patches for that point version?
> >
> > Or if there's a patch package put out, do I need to either compile that
> > version from source, or wait until there is another major point version
> > released that comes *after* that patch package was created?  For example,
> > I'm looking for a fix for bug "OTP-14748". The only Windows build that
> > appears to be dated since that was fixed is 20.2, yet the readme for that
> > does not include a reference to 14748 either.
> >
> > Thanks for any info!
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