Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:23:55 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is 2.2.6-BETA Message-ID: <3509CE1B.59E2B600@asme.org> References: <3.0.5.32.19980311101007.0334f570@ccsales.com> <3.0.5.32.19980313130418.0360a100@ccsales.com> <3509CC94.DBC64F2F@dal.net>
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Yes, I was trying to explain this privately, but Randy still replied to the list. The security lists (and announce) do an excellent job updating the security issues. cheers, Pedro. Studded wrote: > > Randy A. Katz wrote: > > > > Hello Pedro, > > > > Thanx. So if I want to keep stable what do I do:::? > > > > 1. Load the RELEASE and then patches? > > 2. Is there a straight forward, automated way of doing this? > > > > What I'm trying to do is to keep PRODUCTION servers up to date in terms of > > the binaries and security issues (LAND, F00F, etc...)... > > I think you misunderstand. What is now 2.2.6-Beta was 2.2.5-Stable the > day before the name changed. What we now call -Beta could also be > considered the most recent version of -Stable. If the -Beta tag worries > you, don't upgrade till 2.2.6 goes golden. There will be very few > changes between now and that time, so you should be pretty safe from a > security standpoint. > > Hope this helps, > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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