From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 6 9:56:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10DB37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from photon.look.ca (photon.look.ca [207.136.80.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8746A43E75 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from qc-mon-pel-ap3-12-48.look.ca ([209.148.72.95] helo=lust.inside.int) by photon.look.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17c7dU-0004Ls-00; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 16:56:45 +0000 Received: from yip.org (localhost.inside.int [127.0.0.1]) by lust.inside.int (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g76Gv5N04139; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:57:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Message-ID: <3D4FFFDD.5070704@yip.org> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:57:01 -0400 From: Bob K User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020718 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Derevenetz Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merged security patches for 4.3-RELEASE References: <1028636005.3d4fbd6600b65@webmail.vsi.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oleg Derevenetz wrote: > > I have a number of 4.0-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE systems, that cannot be upgraded > for some reasons, but I want to keep them up-to-date (as far as possible) in > security aspect. I have a number of security patches (almost all non-ports, > released cince 4.0-RELEASE), merged (if necessary) with 4.0-RELEASE and > 4.3-RELEASE source code here: > > ftp://ftp.vsi.ru/pub/FreeBSD/patches > > Does the FreeBSD community concerned with these "merged" and tested patches ? > Since I forced to merge these (and all new) security patches to 4.0 and 4.3, I > always can grant them to FreeBSD community. Whether or not they get merged in with the older security branches, perhaps you could combine your resources with these guys? http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message