Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:48:05 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: missing Advisory at ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071021214717.L70919@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <471AA8EE.7050406@freebsd.org> References: <1191595847.2850.21.camel@amd.uni.vrs> <47065710.6090702@freebsd.org> <20071021015451.U70919@fledge.watson.org> <471AA8EE.7050406@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Colin Percival wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Colin Percival wrote: >>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/CERT/ >>> >>> We stopped uploading advisories there because we kept on running into >>> problems with ftp mirrors being out of date, while have complete control >>> over the security.freebsd.org webserver and can make sure files are there >>> before we send out the advisory. >> >> Sounds like we should remove this from ftp-master so it stops being >> replicated, or at least put a note there about it being historic. Any >> preference on which? It would be easy for me to put a warning and >> redirection at the top of README or rename CERT to CERT.old. > > All of the old advisories point to ftp.freebsd.org (both as "the latest > revision of this advisory can be found at" and for the patches), so we > should leave the existing files there for the near future at least. Adding > a README pointing people towards security.freebsd.org sounds like the best > option to me. What I've done is update the README and index.html to reflect the new location, but left the existing files in place for historical reasons. Thanks, Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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