Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:30:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <199910131530.LAA12034@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991013110640.20484A-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <199910131436.IAA02185@faith.cs.utah.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.991013110640.20484A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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<<On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:13:12 -0400 (EDT), Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> said: > do--upgrade your uucp by a minor version number, not upgrade your whole > system or recompile from source with the emailed patch. [...] > tagging in the source files to say "uucp-3.2" vs "uucp-3.2.1" so it's > possible to tell what official package versions match which source > versions. This makes a lot of people very uncomfortable. We have tried very hard to avoid user-visible internal versioning -- either you have ``the version that came with FreeBSD X.X'' or you don't. What you suggest is not without merit, but it also opens up a can of worms many of us would rather see remain closed. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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