Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:41:27 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on the web pages Message-ID: <19990902114127.A58095@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199909012020.OAA19739@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:20:53PM -0600 References: <19990901202500.B61356@mithrandr.moria.org> <199909011506.JAA17999@harmony.village.org> <19990901202500.B61356@mithrandr.moria.org> <199909012020.OAA19739@harmony.village.org>
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Damn. Sorry I didn't reply to your message earlier, I've been pondering
some of this as well.
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:20:53PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <19990901202500.B61356@mithrandr.moria.org> Neil Blakey-Milner writes:
> : If the granularity isn't quite what you're looking for, then some
> : form of CGI script is probably in order.
>
> It would be nice if we could push things out faster than once a day,
> but once a day likely is fast enough.
Two choices really.
1. The webbuild script on freefall works, and takes about 5 minutes to
run. A procedure that lets you push the pages out as and when you
want is probably a good idea. There are a few issues to work around
(like making sure that two updates don't try and run at the same time)
but these are fairly trivial.
2. Set up security.freebsd.org (or similar) and give you full control over
that. But announcements would still need to be on www.freebsd.org,
so that's not a perfect solution.
> Is Wosch's web page still accurate as to what I need?
It was the last time I looked. Also, look at
freefall.freebsd.org:/usr/local/www/bin/webupdate-cvsup
(path from memory, but it's around there somewhere).
> What I'd like to accomplish is a way to publish a security "alert"
> that would be less than a complete advisory, but would say things like
> "wuftpd has a hold in it, upgrade to the port after 19990831" or
> something like that. I'm not yet sure of the machanics of this yet,
> nor how to link patches from these updates. So I'm mulling right now
> the best way to improve this.
Simple web pages are probably easiest. You have to remember to update the
newsflash page as well though.
Depending on when you need this done by, it could form a topic of
conversation at FreeBSD Con.
N
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non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
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