From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 26 9:16:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9250137B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:16:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from aphrodite.gwi.net (aphrodite.gwi.net [207.5.128.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC0143FDD for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamin@gwi.net) Received: from dargo.gwi (dargo.gwi.net [207.5.142.21]) by aphrodite.gwi.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1QHGH161943; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:16:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jamin@gwi.net) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:16:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Jamin A. Brown" To: "Sergey A. Osokin" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_5 no longer updated? In-Reply-To: <20030226171214.GJ424@freebsd.org.ru> Message-ID: References: <20030226171214.GJ424@freebsd.org.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My thanks, Would it be possible to request that when a security branch is changed to "not officially supported" that there is a warning about this before it happens to the freebsd-announce list? Or is such an announcement made somewhere already and I just missed it? It would be great to know about this in advance so that those systems could be brought up to date before occasions like the recent patches. Jamin On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Sergey A. Osokin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:09:35PM -0500, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > > Not sure if this is the best forum to ask, but... > > > > Anyone know why RELENG_4_5 wasn't updated with the latest patches, and if > > there is some for of official announcement that goes out before a branch > > is no longer updated? > > Yes, look at > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ > Quote: FreeBSD 4.5 security fix branch (not officially supported). > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Supervisor operations@gwi.net * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA 1024 PGP Key: http://home.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message