From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 10:27:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B3116A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:27:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7743443FD7 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FF566DD2; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:27:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A0419CD; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:27:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:27:37 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Howells Message-ID: <20031030182737.GE29685@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031029175012.00a81670@pop.voyager.net> <20031029230105.GA13477@rot13.obsecurity.org> <2636.138.253.231.154.1067528344.squirrel@www.netweaver.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8vCeF2GUdMpe9ZbK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2636.138.253.231.154.1067528344.squirrel@www.netweaver.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I upgrade to 4.9? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:27:38 -0000 --8vCeF2GUdMpe9ZbK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:39:04PM -0000, Chris Howells wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:52:09PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: >=20 > > Do you need to update it (security advisories, etc)? If yes, then > > update. If no, then don't ;-) I wrote the above, not "dragoncrest". Please don't mung attributions :) > Considering that security fixes will be back ported to the 4.8 branch, > your comment doesn't make much sense. Keep it at 4.8, there's probably > nothing really useful in 4.9, and you just risk breaking more stuff. Except I didn't say that. What I asked was whether considerations like security advisories make it worthwhile for the OP to upgrade. For example, if they are running stock 4.8-R, there are several serious vulnerabilities on their system, and upgrading in some form is recommended. Kris --8vCeF2GUdMpe9ZbK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/oVgYWry0BWjoQKURAkOxAKC6KI9q/k3yE6ff5PFEbdm35r9isQCg1qfM /E3LZMKdgse0WihekcEKXPM= =YPc1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8vCeF2GUdMpe9ZbK--