Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:24:58 +0300 From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru> To: "Jamin A. Brown" <jamin@gwi.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_5 no longer updated? Message-ID: <20030226172458.GL424@freebsd.org.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.50.0302261214180.22015-100000@dargo.gwi.net> References: <Pine.BSI.4.50.0302261207440.22015-100000@dargo.gwi.net> <20030226171214.GJ424@freebsd.org.ru> <Pine.BSI.4.50.0302261214180.22015-100000@dargo.gwi.net>
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:16:17PM -0500, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > Would it be possible to request that when a security branch is changed to > "not officially supported" that there is a warning about this before it > happens to the freebsd-announce list? Or is such an announcement made > somewhere already and I just missed it? > > It would be great to know about this in advance so that those systems > could be brought up to date before occasions like the recent patches. AFAIK, when a new version of FreeBSD released (or new tag like RELENG_4_X_RELEASE committed into the CVS-tree) preprevious branch make unsupported. If you subscribed to freebsd-announce maillist - you notified that new version (FreeBSD 4.7) released. Its automagicaly means that RELENG_4_5 is unsuppoted. > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Sergey A. Osokin wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:09:35PM -0500, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > > > Not sure if this is the best forum to ask, but... > > > > > > Anyone know why RELENG_4_5 wasn't updated with the latest patches, and if > > > there is some for of official announcement that goes out before a branch > > > is no longer updated? > > > > Yes, look at > > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ > > Quote: FreeBSD 4.5 security fix branch (not officially supported). -- Rgdz, /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Sergey Osokin aka oZZ, \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL http://ozz.pp.ru/ X AND NEWS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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