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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2006 10:24:06 +0200
From:      Massimo Lusetti <massimo@cedoc.mo.it>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Survey
Message-ID:  <1148286246.4303.3.camel@massimo.datacode.it>
In-Reply-To: <44714FBB.4000603@samsco.org>
References:  <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org> <20060521231657.O6063@abigail.angeltread.org> <44714FBB.4000603@samsco.org>

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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 23:44 -0600, Scott Long wrote:

> ports tree in the process, the end result is a bit more undefined.  One
> thing that I wish for is that the ports tree would branch for releases,
> and that those branches would get security updates.  I know that this
> would involve an exponentially larger amount of effort from the ports
> team, and I don't fault them for not doing it.  Still, it would be nice
> to have.

Yes, totally agree.
That's the way OpenBSD ports tree works and it worked very well for me.
Thus not to say FreeBSD's one didn't, but it takes a lot more attention,
which isn't always a bad thing ;)

-- 
Massimo.run();





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