Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:19:37 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Jay Keller <jaykeller4@hotmail.com>, Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> Subject: Re: Updating ssh Message-ID: <XFMail.011128161937.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011128171207.056cd1d0@localhost>
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On 29-Nov-01 Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:58 PM 11/28/2001, Christopher Schulte wrote: > >>At 03:26 PM 11/28/2001 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >>>Perhaps FreeBSD should put these things in /usr/local from the get-go? >> >>No. /usr/local is for software installed outside the base system. The ssh >>package is part of the base system, > > Not really. It's not maintained by the FreeBSD Core Team and is updated > independently. It merely "comes with" the base system. That's an important > distinction. Very few things are maintained by the Core Team. Many things are maintained by the committers however, including ssh. FreeBSD has some FreeBSD-specific features that are maintained in parallel with OpenSSH development. > Myself, I believe that third-party products should be kept in separate > directories -- preferably in the default ones used by the developers, > unless these are totally bogus. If this were done with SSH, it would > be in /usr/local from the get-go and upgrades would work. Ditto with > Perl. Let's just move all of /usr/bin into /usr/ucb then since it's 3rd party Berkeley code. :-P > --Brett -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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