From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 29 15:17:10 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 41D5637B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from heaven.gigo.com (heaven.gigo.com [64.57.102.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8898D43EA9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:17:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lioux@brturbo.com) Received: from 200-163-6-139-bsace7003.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br (200-163-6-139-bsace7003.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br [200.163.6.139]) by heaven.gigo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0539B8A9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:16:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25581 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Nov 2002 23:16:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20021129231607.25580.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:15:45 -0200 From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira 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)] References: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021129222946.GA37822@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE X-Disclaimer: I hope you find what you are looking for... in life :) 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 On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:29:24PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Can someone please review/commit this patch? > > 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 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! --- book.sgml.orig Fri Nov 29 20:57:26 2002 +++ book.sgml Fri Nov 29 21:14:12 2002 @@ -3954,6 +3954,17 @@ 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 either security concerns + or a major regression in the currently committed port, please + notify the Package Builders &a.portmgr; to request both + immediate rebuilding and immediate redistribution of your + port's package. Unsuspecting users of &man.pkg.add.1; will + otherwise continue to install the old version via + pkg_add for several + weeks. + + Once again, please use &man.diff.1; and not &man.shar.1; to send updates to existing ports! --- What about the aforementioned? I'll commit it if it is okay. -- Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." Computer Science Undergraduate | FreeBSD Committer | CS Developer flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message