From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 0:59:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7302837B698 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:59:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010207085905.IBVQ25489.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:59:05 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id DAA01527; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:03:26 -0600 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:03:26 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Robert Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Is there a STABLE 'critical update' announce list? Message-ID: <20010207030326.A1493@home.com> Mail-Followup-To: Robert , FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from robert@chalmers.com.au on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:09:16PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:09:16PM +1000, Robert wrote: > I'm wondering if there is an announce list - or even just this one perhaps, > where 'critical updates' are announced.? > > I notice that even on a daily basis almost, cvsup will bring in new/modified > files in the STABLE 4.2 branch, but not wanting to do a buildworld every > day, I figure some will be 'critical' and some just patching and mods. > But, if there is a modification that is critical, like a security patch, > kernel fix or the like.. will it be announced? or just left up to the users > to catch it in a once a month type cvs.? Security announcements are made on the security-announcements mailing list. As far as bug fixes are concerned... well this is the mailing list you should be reading. -- Victor R. Cardona GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message