Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:40:52 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:28.resolv Message-ID: <3D1B4E24.1F91E51D@centtech.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020627130314.6971H-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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I mentioned this a while back, and I still think it's a good idea (once once OpenSSH is ready). Like we were saying with the Apache bug - those who don't read the lists, are typically RELEASE hungry, and will jump all over a 4.6.1 without really caring that it's mostly security fixes - and those that do follow the lists, will have their stuff patched and ready before the 4.6.1 rolled out, so we get best of both worlds. That's just my $0.02 - not meaning much without an @freebsd.org at the end of my email. :) Eric p.s. - should this move to -chat? Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I'm beginning to think that once all this settles down a 4.6.1 release > > may be a good idea. Apache, ssh, now the resolver... nasty. > > I've been wondering about that also. However, the release engineering > process is fairly heavy-weight, and the last time we did a light-weight > x.x.1 release, people leapt on that opportunity to over-load it with lots > of minor fixes that ended up making it a fairly broken release (since > inevitably they weren't minor, but we weren't willing to do a full > heavy-weight release). Regardless, we'd want to wait to spin a .x.x.1 > release until the new OpenSSH was merged back, I think, so it will be a > bit yet before we can really make a decision on this. The best strategy > would be to literally slap down another tag on RELENG_4_6 and call it > RELENG_4_6_1 point-release. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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