From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 29 15:38:17 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 1F7A937B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from heaven.gigo.com (heaven.gigo.com [64.57.102.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D5543EBE for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:38:14 -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 A417BB73A for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25900 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Nov 2002 23:37:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20021129233724.25899.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:37:02 -0200 From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Kris Kennaway , 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> <20021129231227.GD755@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021129231227.GD755@gothmog.gr> 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 Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:12:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > %%% > 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! I did a couple changes on my previous post after receiving some feedback from Keramida. This contains both our changes --- book.sgml.orig Fri Nov 29 20:57:26 2002 +++ book.sgml Fri Nov 29 21:33:28 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! -- Used the a.portmgr entity instead of hardcoding email. Used 2 spaces after phrasal terminator. Added inside context to emphasize semantical context, the whole makes for the command but -r is an option of it. Also used parallelization word both where appropriate. If you like it, go ahead and commit since keramida already approved it. You can add my stamp of approval as well heheh but his is much better hehehe -- 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