From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 16:31:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow024o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E860937B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:31:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from spatula.home ([62.31.80.67]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:31:45 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Andrew Boothman To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:31:41 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [-stable archive searching is currently unavailable - but I don't think this has come up before] Hi! What with the recent security advisories on telnetd and also OpenSSH, I decided to upgrade my nat/ipfw/squid box from 4.3-RELEASE to RELENG_4_3. This all went according to plan, and I am now the proud owner of a slightly more secure box. My only surprise was that, a "uname -r" still reports the OS version as being 4.3-RELEASE. I guess, in a way, this still is 4.3-RELEASE since it has had no other changes apart from a few security patches. But, to me, this violates the idea that a -RELEASE is a snapshot of a development branch. Because, you can cvsup with tag=RELENG_4_3_RELEASE or tag=RELENG_4_3 and get two (slightly) different sets of sources, both of which claim to be the definitive 4.3-RELEASE. Further, in my case, the RELENG_4_3 world was made on a different box, and then exported to and installed on my gateway box, which doesn't have any sources on it. How can I tell that the box is running the patched 4.3-RELEASE and not the 'original' 4.3-RELEASE as the sources are not available? Might it be time to invent a new development branch name like FreeBSD 4.3-SECURITY or 4.3-PATCHED or something like that? Comments? Thanks! Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message