From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 18 13:25: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from radix.cryptio.net (radix.cryptio.net [199.181.107.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FB537B402 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from emechler@localhost) by radix.cryptio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2ILOjG60682; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from emechler) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:24:45 -0800 From: Erick Mechler To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:18.zlib Message-ID: <20020318132445.G74681@techometer.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020318140524.00e5bd60@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020318140524.00e5bd60@nospam.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:05:41PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :: >You mean like the 4.5 security branch (RELENG_4_5)? :: :: I don't use CVS on production machines (nor should one :: do so; it's not a good idea to rebuild a production machine's :: code nightly). There used to be binary patches for security releases, at least there were before 4.5-RELEASE. Apparently that's not happening anymore? I didn't see any mention of binary patches in the most recent advisories. Cheers - Erick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message