From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 18 11:45:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from goofy.epylon.com (sf-gw.epylon.com [63.93.9.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24D937B83B for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by goofy.epylon.lan with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <24K4XBMK>; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:35:32 -0700 Message-ID: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA02FFF538@goofy.epylon.lan> From: "DiCioccio, Jason" To: 'Jon Bergfeld' , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:35:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@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 Give me a break, he's not trolling, he's making a valid point. Perhaps some of the current FTP mirrors could mirror the releng_4_[0-9] snapshots currently on ftp://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org (as Chris Faulhaber posted). The snapshots are being made none the less though so it looks like this might be the answer to his problem/question. Cheers, - -JD- - -----Original Message----- From: Jon Bergfeld [mailto:jbergfel@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:18 AM To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip look, the existing process seems to work fine for everyone else, so if you want a new way to upgrade, develop it yourself. now stop trolling and let's move on. - --- 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?" > What's needed is builds either from this or from -STABLE > (with testing to make sure nothing's broken) that one can > download and install without recompiling the world. With > numbers such that one can say, "This server is at -p3 and > a new security hole was found.... I'll upgrade to -p4 tonight." > Simple, convenient, and likely to work without fuss, so that > we can install the build and get back to more important things, > like developing code. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPL8ULL8+wXo6G32BEQL91gCgutwDN743l4KlAhqALp0LfiRMu2IAn0rZ I73vrq4B/M98XYVg3X09pC/M =RBh4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message