From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 24 6: 6:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6157737B420; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020424130454.IINI7777.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:04:54 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3OD4scB062650; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3OD4slv062649; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204241304.g3OD4slv062649@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020416 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Doug Barton , JJ Behrens , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** HEAD'S UP *** In-reply-to: <20020424125400.F87244@mail.webmonster.de> References: <20020422114407.B21612@alicia.nttmcl.com> <20020423215717.S66402-100000@master.gorean.org> <20020424125400.F87244@mail.webmonster.de> Comments: In-reply-to "Karsten W. Rohrbach" message dated "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:54:00 +0200." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:04:54 -0700 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 If memory serves me right, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: > How about a Changelog? NOTES (HEAD) and UPDATING in /usr/src are one > way, but a semi-automatic way of making changes transparent to the > administrator would be a good start, i think. How is this different from the release notes? src/release/doc/* http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ > - most important, a list of _resolved_ SAs that are in the current dist. > in fact, i recognize this as a major point, judging from several > threads on -hackers and -security of the last weeks. finding out what > "patch level" you are on an arbitrary box would be "more > /etc/Changelog" and there you go. mergemaster would display the diff > between old and new version right when it starts, so the admin > instantly gets an overview of what major things have changed This information is in UPDATING. I suppose one could make a credible argument that it should be in the release notes for the security branches (e.g. RELENG_4_5), but that's not the way we do things currently. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message