Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:53:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <48502D4B.3040201@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080611193628.GC998@in-addr.com> References: <484FA07E.60103@lozenetz.org> <b97c11a8a910057f0ea95f737791d968@localhost> <3cc535c80806110536w1c8af6efq8d5470ce6de8cb38@mail.gmail.com> <20080611165009.O40102@fledge.watson.org> <4E2C3BF30A4BC75D1D837828@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20080611193123.N40102@fledge.watson.org> <20080611193628.GC998@in-addr.com>
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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 <x> 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
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