Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:07:46 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale NTP software included in FreeBSD (RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT) Message-ID: <20140903120746.GI63085@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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--mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:10:24PM +1000, John Marshall wrote: > All of the following FreeBSD releases included stale NTP software at the > time of their release. >=20 > 8.3-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p5) > 8.4-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p5) > 9.0-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 9.1-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 9.2-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 9.3-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 10.0-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) >=20 > ntp 4.2.4 is the version that shipped in all of the above releases and > is also included in 10-STABLE and 11-CURRENT at present. ntp 4.2.4 was > superseded by the ntp 4.2.6 release on 12-Dec-2009. Is there any > interest in getting a supported version of the ntp software into the > upcoming 10.1 release? I would have thought that the latest patch > release of the stable ntp version (4.2.6p5 24-DEC-2011) would be > appropriate? I know that the ntp folks are working on releasing 4.2.8 > but it isn't quite there yet. >=20 > I understand that this is a volunteer project and that volunteers don't > have time to do everything. I'm just waving the flag in case this is > something that may have been overlooked. >=20 > Thank you to all those committers who look after vendor imports for all > of the contributed software that helps make up the FreeBSD releases. >=20 > --=20 > John Marshall One of the thing that makes updating ntp complicated it that is now depends= on bison extension which our old yacc (as of freebsd 8 and 9), newer byacc (freebsd 10.0) does not support FreeBSD 10.1 and FreeBSD current have a newer byacc version that does suppo= rt the said extension regards, Bapt --mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQHBJIACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwHJQCfbRx8gt2RTCcUKXJsMs3GUS1s xo8An2GwkNAvd0dRi/Q8A4HpMVxjzSia =BMf6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ--
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