From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 20 12:23:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27736 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27725 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:23:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA06972; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:22:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA08405; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:22:47 -0600 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:22:47 -0600 Message-Id: <199807201922.NAA08405@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brett Glass Cc: "Christopher G. Petrilli" , "Gentry A. Bieker" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no info on the QPOPPER hack? In-Reply-To: <199807201809.MAA21160@lariat.lariat.org> References: <199807201740.LAA20525@lariat.lariat.org> <199807201809.MAA21160@lariat.lariat.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It might save your butt. > > But who said anything about "randomly?" The aforementioned Windows apps > do let you upgrade when you want to, and let you roll back. > > --Brett Which Windows apps allow you to roll upgrades back? Also, you said 'automatically' in your original email, and now you're changing your tune to 'when you want to'.re to automaticly upgrade for you, > do you? > >> > >> That's a darn good idea. Several Windows apps do this already. Why not > >> the FreeBSD ports? In any case, our ports allow you to upgrade when you want to as well, and roll back as well, and don't require any sort of work on behalf of the application writer, unlike the Windows software. :) Upgrade: -------- # cd /usr/ports/mail/popper # make clean && make && make install Roll back: ---------- # cd /usr/ports/mail/popper # cvs update -D'last week' # make clean && make && make install Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message