Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:47:15 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>, peter.lai@uconn.edu, security at FreeBSD <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.6-R (Was: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl) Message-ID: <20031006124715.GB6660@cowbert.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <20031006120442.GA77299@madman.celabo.org> References: <200310032249.h93MnXS8047857@freefall.freebsd.org> <20031005142519.GA76750@sheol.localdomain> <20031005163252.GC399@cowbert.2y.net> <20031005171245.GA82807@sheol.localdomain> <20031006120442.GA77299@madman.celabo.org>
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:04:42AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:45PM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > According to a HEADSUP sent out by Jacques, RELENG_4_6 was supported by > > SA-03:15, and the CVS tree updated. RELENG_4_6 was also supported by > > SA-03:18, but I'm not certain if its CVS tree was updated (neither the > > HEADSUP nor the SA explicitly says so, but I'll bet it has been). > > Yes, the SA says so: > > Corrected: [...] 2003-10-03 20:24:59 UTC (RELENG_4_6, 4.6.2-RELEASE-p26) > > > I'm not sure if RELENG_4_6 is EOL'd or not (though I think it is). Having > > said that, the Security team does release patches for EOL'd releases as > > they see fit. > > No need to guess. See the table at > <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv >. > > > > I was expecting to be able to manually patch my 4.6 sources > > > and recompile just the crypto/secure subsystems but instead I was forced to > > Manual patching is really only recommended for gurus. Please use > CVSup and report any problems. Yes, I CVSup'd to RELENG_4_6 and the secure/crypto subsystem failed to build correctly as I mentioned before (breaks on unresolved symbols during linking to libssh); DJ Hawkey didn't report any problems so I have no idea what was up :( > > > > upgrade to 4.8 which broke a ton of other stuff (mainly ports). Maybe I should > > > have moved to RELENG_4_7 instead. > > RELENG_4_7 was EoL'd on September 30. Hmm, actually I think > I'll extend that to October 31, considering the delay on FreeBSD > 4.9-RELEASE. > > Cheers, > -- > Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal > nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology Yale University School of Medicine SenseLab | Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/
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