Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:46:20 +0200 From: J.McKeown@ru.ac.za To: David.I.Noel@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, secteam <secteam@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update Message-ID: <20140411094620.78881cjb990bw8gc@webmail.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <CAHAXwYCGkP-o0VvMXj5S8-KNA45aTvy%2BsrjDL_=8-x9Dza5z5Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHAXwYCGkP-o0VvMXj5S8-KNA45aTvy%2BsrjDL_=8-x9Dza5z5Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting David Noel <david.i.noel@gmail.com>: > 4. Retire portsnap. > > Details [snip] > Retiring Portsnap > > With the inclusion of svnlite in 10 I think the valid question comes > up as to whether we really need the portsnap system or whether it > could be safely retired. I see in the PR you suggest getting rid of the portsnap servers as well. 8 and 9 are still supported releases. Does this mean that anyone running 8.4 or 9.2 is going to lose the ability to upgrade their ports tree quickly and easily unless they also upgrade their servers /from a supported release/?
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