From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 29 15:12:35 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 B7D5B37B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:12:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E28243EC2 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:12:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr364-a19.otenet.gr [195.167.109.51]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gATNCSr7017975; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 01:12:30 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gATNCS5T001877; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 01:12:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gATNCRds001876; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 01:12:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 01:12:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Kris Kennaway 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> References: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2002-11-29 14:29, Kris Kennaway 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. %%% Index: book.sgml =================================================================== 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 +++ book.sgml 29 Nov 2002 23:08:05 -0000 @@ -3954,6 +3954,16 @@ 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. + + If your upgrade is motivated by security concerns or a major + regression in the currently committed port, please notify the + Package Builders 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! %%% -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE95/Rb1g+UGjGGA7YRAmUYAJ91FpHVrWXgLtWud2Lv7C188etWDgCfbntc ubGIAyTZLbODJWygLIiq0yY= =IoLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message