From owner-freebsd-security Thu Feb 1 15:48:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.org (adsl-64-169-104-72.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EDB37B4EC; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 765EBBA0CB; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:48:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:48:47 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: John Baldwin Cc: Kris Kennaway , security@FreeBSD.org, Paul Andrews Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:07.xfree86 Message-ID: <20010201154847.A74995@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010201130629.B74541@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqsLC8rIMeq19msA" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:52:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:52:11PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > On 01-Feb-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:57:26PM -0700, Paul Andrews wrote: > >> Does this issue affect only those that installed the XFree86 3.3.6 por= t or > >> does it also affect those who have installed FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE. > >>=20 > >> If it does affect the RELEASE version what is the easiest why to fix t= his > >> problem, without upgrading to XFree86 4.01. > >=20 > > My understanding is that the XFree86 distribution is built from > > whatever is in ports at the time of release. In fact, doesn't > > sysinstall just install the port thesedays anyway? > >=20 > > ls -l /var/db/pkg/XFree86* > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > No, it builds the distribution from ports, and then engages in evilness to > package up the bits in tarballs that mimic the normal XFree distributions. OK, and the reason we can't just leave it a port is because of General Sysinstall Evilness? kris --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6efXfWry0BWjoQKURAt8OAKDbnYen9nXa1z3eeqkY5zyDrXZ7VwCeK/Ay bQOg4RxvbCpQwiY/MZCglCs= =0ZX/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message