From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 11 14:54: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9931837B4CF for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA21850; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:52:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating rdist Message-ID: <20001111145251.D21664@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001111035905.A82574@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011111546.eABFk7X04664@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011111546.eABFk7X04664@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:45:53AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:45:53AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <20001111035905.A82574@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" > writes: > > I have just committed a `44bsd-rdist' port. > > So the question is, do we totally remove `rdist' from the base system, > > or update it to rdist 6.1.5? > > Now that it's in ports I perceive (please correct me if my perception > is wrong) that less attention to security and bug fixing might be paid > to rdist. Or do we have a commitment that the port will be maintained > with as much attention as any software in the base system? We put as much attention in fixing the vulnerability in 44bsd-csh as we did contrib/tcsh. Kris (Security Officer) has been spending a *lot* of time on Ports vulnerabilities. His numerous (heck, tons) of FreeBSD Security Advisories shows that. :-) > Since we now have a 44bsd-rdist port, why don't we maintain it like we > did the OpenSSH port: Check it out of the OpenBSD or NetBSD CVS > repositories. I don't see the advantage of doing that. Plus some may want our full CVS repo history for rdist. If you check out the 44bsd-* ports, you'll see that I package the full RCS files up, and any changes to the code has to be done thru RCS. No patches allowed in the 44bsd-* ports. > On to another idea and another tangent: Why not leave both rdists in > ports and have sysinstall ask the user whether 44bsd-rdist (compatible > with most vendors UNIX systems), rdist6 (compatible with Linux), and/or > rsync be installed. It already does, thru the Package installation submenu. ;-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message