From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 18 11:53:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B189E37BBEE for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16yGwy-00023V-00 for security@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:48:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:48:08 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <20020418184808.GA7729@submonkey.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114304.00dccf00@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020417230144.032ad390@nospam.lariat.org> <200204171923.g3HJNga58899@freefall.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <15550.62541.903626.398637@caddis.yogotech.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114304.00dccf00@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418120036.021ceb30@nospam.lariat.org> <20020418181553.GA6453@submonkey.net> <20020418182246.GA6731@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020418182246.GA6731@submonkey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:22:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:06:28PM -0600, 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?" > > > > That's not a bad point. > > Any reason why newvers.sh can't be change to do this in RELENG_4 ? > > I meant RELENG_4_[0-9]. And it already does get changed. /me considers unsubscribing ... :) Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message