From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 8 10:24: 3 2002 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 995A237B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu (d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu [137.99.188.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA44843E4A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net) Received: (qmail 18692 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Aug 2002 17:23:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:23:58 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Ralph Huntington Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security upgrade question Message-ID: <20020808172357.GA16252@cowbert.2y.net> Reply-To: peter.lai@uconn.edu References: <20020808123953.X75214-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020808123953.X75214-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> 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 On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:47:03PM -0400, Ralph Huntington wrote: > Hi all, forgive me is this is an obvious question. We have numerous fbsd > boxes with versions from 4.2 on up. I know I need to cvsup RELENG_4_4 for > 4.4-RELEASE, RELENG_4_5 for 4.5, and RELENG_4_6 for 4.6. > > What's not clear to me is: Are the security patches included in RELENG_4 > to use for earlier 4.x boxes? In other words, are the libc problem and the > openssl problem and the bind problem and whatever else problem has been > advised about recently taken care of in RELENG_4 ?? No. RELENG_4 is -STABLE, which is always newer than RELENG_4_6. On the newness scale (measured by the number of commits per time, and corresponding stability) you see: 5-CURRENT (RELENG_5?) <-- most new; active development version STABLE (RELENG_4), <-- fbsd 4.x stable leading on to the next point release SECURITY RELEASE (RELENG_4_X), <-- only security patches version 3 (RELENG_3), <-- no new code introduced at all decrepitly old (RELENG_2?) <-- fbsd 2.x Hopefully no one uses this anymore Changes are made to -CURRENT and after tested for stability are MFC'd to -STABLE. To minimize new code introduction to maintain further stability, security branch was created; these only contain the security patches, unlike releng_4 that contain new code trickled down from 5. There are backports available for older releases. Recently we were plugging DJ Hawkey's work: http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html > > Thanks much for your advice. - Ralph > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant Yale University School of Medicine Center for Medical Informatics | Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message