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From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>
Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>,
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Subject: Re: Advice Please 
In-Reply-To: Message from Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> 
   of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 14:35:21 CST." <5.1.0.14.0.20011208142124.039e4dd8@pop.schulte.org> 
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:39:35 +0000
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At 2001-12-08 20:35:21+0000, Christopher Schulte writes:
> At 09:16 AM 12/9/2001 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> >You might be better off upgrading to 4.4-RELEASE and applying
> >bugfixes/updates instead.
> 
> Or upgrade to RELENG_4_4 which is -RELEASE+security fixes, and save 
> manually applying the important security patches.
> 
> RELENG_4_4 has not had many commits, so the point is not as strong right 
> now.  As we reach breakoff to 4.5-RELEASE, RELENG_4_4 will no doubt have 
> many more commits and thus save more time.  I know RELENG_4_3 was full of 
> fixes over 4.3-RELEASE.

RELENG_4_4 has had two changes in nearly three months since the
release, both in the last week.

The first is the patch for FreeBSD-SA-01:63.openssh (the "UseLogin"
problem).  That moved us to 4.4-RELEASE-p1.

The second is a change to directory permissions in pkg_install.
However, that change didn't include a change to UPDATING or to the
patchlevel number (I would expect a bump to 4.4-RELEASE-p2).

<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/pen.c?f=u&only_with_tag=RELENG_4_4&logsort=date>

RELENG_4_3 is at 4.3-RELEASE-p21.  I stopped tracking it a month or
two ago.

Nick B

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