Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:01:18 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org out of date? (WRT security advisories) Message-ID: <20030918150118.GF32994@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <200309180340.h8I3e8Hl042756@intruder.kitchenlab.org> References: <3F68FE17.5050700@memberwebs.com> <200309180340.h8I3e8Hl042756@intruder.kitchenlab.org>
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:40:08PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > I'm not sure what's a good solution to this. I know that security-team > is aware of the problem, in fact it came up in the security-officer BoF > at BSDCon. I think the end result was that I'm basically willing to manually push updates to any mirrors to which I have access. I have been pushing them to ftp and ftp2, but (as I posted in a recent message), recent events have mucked this up a bit. > (One possibility might be to put the advisories on the Web site and > force an update immediately after an advisory is issued. I do this > during the late stages of a release cycle to push out the release > announcements and release notes. The problem with this, however, is > that everyone is conditioned to look to the FTP sites for advisories.) I wouldn't mind having the advisories and patches live on HTTP also. It is arguably more convenient for more people. I wouldn't want to have to go through CVS first to publish the patches or advisory however. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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