From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 31 14:01:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14792 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from kachina.jetcafe.org (jetcafe.org [207.155.21.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14785; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([127.0.0.1]) by kachina.jetcafe.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09926; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:01:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701312201.OAA09926@kachina.jetcafe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: kachina.jetcafe.org: Host [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:01:16 -0800 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Fesler writes: > At 09:21 AM 1/31/97 -0500, Brian Burton wrote: > >Are there any plans by the FreeBSD team to update FreeBSD 2.1.6-stable > >to use sendmail 8.8.5 in the light of the latest cert advisories? > Or even better, not to include sendmail at all :-) but to instead grab the > current version, and "sh makesendmail", and then merely bring in the > FreeBSD sample config files? Hear hear. In fact, abstracting even further, is there any way to do this with arbitrary packages (like PERL5, Tk, etc.) so that one has the option of NOT installing the outdated versions of stuff in the "packages" collection? ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet A man appointed to be judge has been killed without a knife.