Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:55:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: Making XFree86-4 the default Message-ID: <20000909155557.B40986@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:43:42AM -0700 References: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:43:42AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> What do you guys think about making XFree86-4-* the default now? With
> the split-up XFree86-4 ports and the xtt-* servers (which are
> basically 3.3.6 servers plus TrueType patches), I think everyone can
> have a reasonable system.
AFAIK they still havent added the setuid wrapper which may protect from
any other buffer overflows in the server binary. They also havent added
back PAM support which is in 3.x.
> There are still many ports that have problems with XFree86-4 (most
> notable the HTML manpage stuff) but we have 2 months to fix those
> before the next release.
Actually we are talking about doing a net-only 4.1.5 release in a few
weeks to make use of the fact that SSH now works properly by default.
Maybe we should wait for now..
Kris
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