From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 19:53:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7A6106567C for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:53:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D738FC29 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:53:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 17631 invoked by uid 399); 11 Jun 2008 19:53:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Jun 2008 19:53:49 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <48502D4B.3040201@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:53:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080606) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Palmer References: <484FA07E.60103@lozenetz.org> <3cc535c80806110536w1c8af6efq8d5470ce6de8cb38@mail.gmail.com> <20080611165009.O40102@fledge.watson.org> <4E2C3BF30A4BC75D1D837828@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20080611193123.N40102@fledge.watson.org> <20080611193628.GC998@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611193628.GC998@in-addr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:53:50 -0000 Gary Palmer wrote: > I think a large part of the shortcomings of the ports infrastructure when > it comes to security releases could be mitigated if there was a rapid > building and availability of packages on FTP mirrors to prevent everyone > from doing "portupgrade -P" and then having to wait for the build as > the packages don't show up for days, and people can't wait that long > for the fix. I raised that issue recently on freebsd-ports@ and was told that there are no resources for that right now, although everyone agreed that it is definitely something that would be nice-to-have. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection