From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 29 14:29:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71C437B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:29:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-47.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8040843EC5 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:29:47 -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 0363166BE3 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:29:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B909712E8; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:29:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:29:46 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: docs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [dkl@tessellated.net: Re: Providing a mechanism for port maintainers to specify an immediate package rebuild/redist to improve security response (Was Re: samba security update)] Message-ID: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Can someone please review/commit this patch? Thanks, Kris ----- Forwarded message from dkl ----- Delivered-To: kkenn@localhost.obsecurity.org Delivered-To: kris@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:17:26 -0500 (EST) From: dkl To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , Subject: Re: Providing a mechanism for port maintainers to specify an immed= iate package rebuild/redist to improve security response (Was Re: samba security update) In-Reply-To: <20021129205621.GA37465@rot13.obsecurity.org> X-UIDL: e8a584825dab730b5bf271a481a34983 X-Bogosity: No, tests=3Dbogofilter, spamicity=3D0.000000, version=3D0.8.0.1 > > > Submitting a patch to add it to the porter's handbook would be > > > useful..do you think you could work on that? > > > > Sure, I'll put something together in the next few hours. Please see attached diff. I'll send-pr it and drop nik an email if it looks OK. > A new 'security' section would be good. (snip) I'll try to take care of this on Monday, using your bullets as the basis. regards dkl diff -ruN porters-handbook.orig/book.sgml porters-handbook/book.sgml --- porters-handbook.orig/book.sgml Fri Nov 29 15:37:36 2002 +++ porters-handbook/book.sgml Fri Nov 29 16:08:06 2002 @@ -3954,6 +3954,10 @@ doing a commit. If the diff is more than about 20KB, please compr= ess and uuencode it; otherwise, just include it in the PR as is. =20 + + If your upgrade is motivated by security concerns or a major = regression in the currently committed port, please notify the Package Build= ers portmgr@FreeBSD.org to request immediate rebuilding and = redistribution of your port's package. Unsuspecting users of &man.pkg_add.1= ; will otherwise continue to install the old version via pkg_add -= r for several weeks. + + Once again, please use &man.diff.1; and not &man.shar.1; to = send updates to existing ports! ----- End forwarded message ----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE95+paWry0BWjoQKURAjT0AKC3U/szxL6zln9FjhCJRP7CRdjPpgCgsVJd oHef+ptbwPGkb6aLfKV7MMw= =3ieE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message