Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:15:53 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <20020418181553.GA6453@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418120036.021ceb30@nospam.lariat.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114304.00dccf00@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020417230144.032ad390@nospam.lariat.org> <200204171923.g3HJNga58899@freefall.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <15550.62541.903626.398637@caddis.yogotech.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114304.00dccf00@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418120036.021ceb30@nospam.lariat.org>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:06:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:54 AM 4/18/2002, Jamie Norwood wrote: > > >> Not true at all. What administrators using FreeBSD need is not > >> "hand-holding" but a way to upgrade to a known good snapshot. > >> Not necessarily the absolute latest, but one with the needed > >> patches which others have seen to work. > > > >This is RELENG_4_5. What are you looking for that it does not > >provide? > > This is a CVS tag, not a build. Also, what you get when you > bring it in will change over time, so you can't easily answer > the question, "What patch level is this server running?" That's not a bad point. Any reason why newvers.sh can't be change to do this in RELENG_4 ? Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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