Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:34:28 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jason DiCioccio <Jason.DiCioccio@Epylon.com> Cc: "'Scott Johnson'" <sjohn@airlinksys.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Announcements Message-ID: <200104111834.f3BIYS634015@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0166D77F@goofy.epylon.lan> References: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0166D77F@goofy.epylon.lan>
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--==_Exmh_878091516P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Jason DiCioccio wrote: > While I don't take your approach to maintaining my machines (I > actually use -STABLE), I completely agree with you. I have > encountered problems in -STABLE due to the given period of time that > I simply cvsupped to it (getting -STABLE on a 'bad day').. Mind you, > - -CURRENT has many more bad days than -STABLE does, but -STABLE > definitely has them. And if every single machine on your network has > to be up at all times, I would agree with your patching -RELEASE > method. I'm sure many others take this path as well, and it seems a > logical one. It's nice to have a choice. Another choice is to not grab the latest 4-STABLE, but use a 4-STABLE from some time in the recent past that was reasonably bug-free. See the date= keyword to cvsup(8). Bruce. --==_Exmh_878091516P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE61KO02MoxcVugUsMRAne1AKD/MhgQPua1vunGIpuNFAVgy9V4LwCg/Zdw ceAy5Ry3bUWxyk1RatZvsAc= =MyoP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_878091516P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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