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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:15:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Scott Mace <smace@intt.ORG>
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/netscape4-navigator Makefile ports/www/netscape4-navigator/files md5 netscape.sh ports/www/netscape4-n
Message-ID:  <199809221615.LAA05474@metal.intt.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980922180245.16068@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Sep 22, 1998  6: 2:45 pm"

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> On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> > asami       1998/09/22 08:33:44 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     www/netscape4-navigator Makefile 
> >     www/netscape4-navigator/files md5 netscape.sh 
> >     www/netscape4-navigator/pkg PLIST 
> >   Log:
> >   Revert one version so 4.05 will be on the CD.  4.06 seems to be too
> >   unreliable.  Since the distfile is not on Netscape's site anymore, put
> >   it on wcarchive.
> 
> 4.05 has security problems (any random web-page can execute anything
> it pleases, IIRC).  This is IMO more important than any other
> reliability issue.
> 
> Eivind.
> 

The BSDI 1.1 version of 4.06 seems to work ok... This is what I use on any
of my -current systems

	Scott



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