From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 19 8:58:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2772737B404; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (madman.nectar.cc [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA63738; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:58:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by madman.nectar.cc (8.12.2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3JFwnVw051339; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:58:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@madman.nectar.cc) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by madman.nectar.cc (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3JFwnbr051335; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:58:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:58:49 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Brett Glass Cc: Doug Barton , security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Brett rant #31459654 Message-ID: <20020419155849.GG31829@madman.nectar.cc> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418143231.021d6840@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020419090903.023f0590@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020419090903.023f0590@nospam.lariat.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Url: http://www.nectar.cc/ 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 [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 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