Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 01:12:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: docs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [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: <20021129231227.GD755@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On 2002-11-29 14:29, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> Can someone please review/commit this patch?
>
> Thanks,
> Kris
The patch that was attached needed two minor changes. One of them is
stylistic. I wrapped all the lines to 78 columns. The second one is
a minor detail that only building would catch. There is no
&mn.pkg_add.1; entity. The correct entity is &man.pkg.add.1;
(i.e. the underscore is replaced by a dot).
Feel free to commit the version I have attached below, approved by me.
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.256
diff -u -r1.256 book.sgml
- --- book.sgml 18 Nov 2002 09:32:53 -0000 1.256
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doing a commit. If the diff is more than about 20KB, please compress
and uuencode it; otherwise, just include it in the PR as is.</para>
+ <important>
+ <para>If your upgrade is motivated by security concerns or a major
+ regression in the currently committed port, please notify the
+ Package Builders <email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email> 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 <command>pkg_add
+ -r</command> for several weeks.</para>
+ </important>
+
<note>
<para>Once again, please use &man.diff.1; and not &man.shar.1; to send
updates to existing ports!</para>
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