Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:58:49 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Brett rant #31459654 Message-ID: <20020419155849.GG31829@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020419090903.023f0590@nospam.lariat.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418143231.021d6840@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020419090903.023f0590@nospam.lariat.org>
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[Please change the Subject line; it has been long since the specific advisory was the topic of this thread.] On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:29:13AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > I also think that the new RELENG_N_N idea > > I see; it's "the" new RELENG_N_N idea, not mine. Can't give me > credit for anything, can you? ;-) It is not new and it is not yours. We have been updating newvers.sh on the security branches for 8 months now (since 4.3-RELEASE-p12). > But we also need to make the security branch the one that > new users get, by default, when they visit the FreeBSD Web site, get > floppy images, and download via the Net. Finally, a reasonable suggestion. It has come up many times, but the issue is always the same: resources. Do you have some to contribute? > It would also be exceedingly > useful to post -- prominently -- a patch that upgrades buyers of the > last release on CD to the same build, and to display a message at the end > of sysinstall directing users to the page where it's located. We have experimental binary patches for some time now, and we're not ready quite yet to stop calling them `experimental'. When we do, you can be sure that we will announce it. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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