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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 problems with ftp mirrors being out of date, while have complete control 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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