From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 10:01:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B73B16A4D6; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:01:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dev.bmby.co.il (l192-114-46-204.broadband.actcom.net.il [192.114.46.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B9043D53; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:01:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from uzi@bmby.com) Received: from [10.0.0.3] ([10.0.0.3]) by dev.bmby.co.il (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j3IA1Tqx025100; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:01:29 +0300 Message-ID: <42639379.4010206@bmby.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:01:13 +0200 From: Uzi Klein User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:01:34 -0000 Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote: > > >>Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the >>salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, > > > The same way they're being paid for their work on other > releases? ;-) > ouch! > >>Eh? If the important part is the security fixes, why not just >>install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes? > That's what we usually do whenever there's a security fix... I didn't see a new release pops up for after each security fix. > > That's fine for awhile, but there will soon be enough > that this will be painful. And it may be a good idea to > produce a release containing other code that's been backported > from 5.x and 6.x. Sounds interesting, but, while you were asking about SMP, AMD64 etc. that's not backporting, That's kernel handling AFAIK. > > --Brett Glass > -- Uzi Klein B.M.B.Y Software Systems LTD. http://www.bmby.com