From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 5 9:56: 1 2003 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 D187337B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from cowbert.2y.net (d46h180.public.uconn.edu [137.99.46.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E33F43F93 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net) Received: (qmail 43458 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Mar 2003 17:55:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:55:57 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does the patching procedure work? Message-ID: <20030305175557.GD738@cowbert.2y.net> Reply-To: peter.lai@uconn.edu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305052142.03f04200@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305050739.03f078f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305052142.03f04200@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305100150.048518c0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305100150.048518c0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 > Patches should be provided back to 4.4, IMHO. > > --Brett > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message Patches are only supported for the current release (4.7) and the previous one (4.6.2), which is consistent with FreeBSD security policy. However, some people have backported patches, notably djhawkins(sp?). I don't know the site off the top of my head but the link is archived on this mailing list. I'm pretty sure he can give you hand in disseminating or developing backports for freebsd before R-4.6. -- Peter C. Lai To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message