From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 28 16:19:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AFC37B417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:19:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15706 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 00:20:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 00:20:11 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011128171207.056cd1d0@localhost> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:19:37 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Updating ssh Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Jay Keller , Christopher Schulte 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 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 <>< 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