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Date:      Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:58:25 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        doug@safeport.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading for FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail
Message-ID:  <20030310065824.GA22979@soupnazi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030310003020.P85374@pemaquid.safeport.com>
References:  <20030310003020.P85374@pemaquid.safeport.com>

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 00:47:59 -0500, doug@safeport.com wrote:
> As per this announcement I updated my source tree to
> 'date=2003.03.08.10.10.00' picking a date later than the Mar 4th date
> of FreeBSD-SA-03:04.
> 
> From the announcement:
> 
>    1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE; or to the RELENG_5_0,
>    RELENG_4_7, or RELENG_4_6 security branch dated after the correction
>    date (5.0-RELEASE-p4, 4.7-RELEASE-p7, or 4.6.2-RELEASE-p10,
>    respectively).
> 
>    [NOTE: At the time of this writing, the FreeBSD 4-STABLE branch is
>    labeled `4.8-RC1'.]
> 
> My question is that I get:
> 
>    Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
>    Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>            The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>    FreeBSD 4.8-RC #0: Sun Mar  9 23:03:55 EST 2003
> 
> Does the label not apply if I specify a date? Does the 4.8-RC #0 represent a
> problem? I did get the correct version of sendmail.

No, the label of "RC1" doesn't apply if you cvsup and build/install
world, it only applies to snapshots and ISOs for QA purposes.  If you
update build/install world you'll only see "RC".  This is normal, and
you're not seeing anything out of the ordinary.

- jim

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