Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:39:39 +0200 From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: missing Advisory at ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <471BC71B.9090703@gmx.de> 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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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 problems with ftp mirrors being out of date, while have complete 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. OK, that is a good reason. (with ftp it was very easy to get the advisories/patches with a script and wget without filtering icons and index.html files) >> 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. For humans who browse the website it is better to correct the link to CERT at http://security.freebsd.org/ to the new location. <-- snipped from the website http://security.freebsd.org/ -- Advisories are always signed using the FreeBSD Security Officer PGP key and are archived, along with their associated patches, at our FTP CERT repository. ......................................................^^^^^^^^ At the time of this writing, the following advisories are currently available (note that this list may be a few days out of date - for the very latest advisories please check the FTP site): .................^^^^^^^^ -- end snipped --> olli
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