From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 25 1:43:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7B637B404 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5P8hc2A021397; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 04:43:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 04:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Antony Mawer Cc: Darren Reed , Subject: Re: Time to look put more resources into FreeSSH ? In-Reply-To: <3D182912.2060306@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: <20020625044231.C95270-100000@sasami.jurai.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Antony Mawer wrote: > The only downside I can see to this is that it requires "more" to keep a > system up-to-date than a make world/mergemaster; however, I'd imagine it > then makes updating software a lot easier than having to merge the code > into the base system like we presently have. The work required to update the SSH sources in the tree insures that it will always be updated as infrequently as possible. This alone is reason to move it to ports and leave it there. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message