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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:22:07 +0200
From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gaml@buz.ch>
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To: William Allmendinger <allmenwf@udmercy.edu>
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Subject: Re: Security Branches
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You wrote:
WA> Please excuse what is possiblly a very easy question. How
WA> does one find out what the latest security branch is for a
WA> particular release? In the advisory for reslov, it states to
WA> upgrade you system to the latest security branch,
WA> 4.5-RELEASE-p7. How do I find out if this is the latest one
WA> to upgrade/install from. I can't move to 4.6 yet due to an
WA> isue with the boot loader and scsi, waiting for 6.1 to see
WA> if it has a fix. These are production systems and I need
WA> them as secure and stable as possible. Thanks.


If you don't want to move to 4.6 (which I'd highly recommend if you
see any chance to get it running), you should cvsup to RELENG_4_5
which is the 4.5 RELEASE + security patches branch.


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