From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 10 16:33:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7D537B424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([fec0::2e0:7dff:fe81:749d]) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14n7K4-0000n8-00; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:13:20 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3ANDKt58200; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:13:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:13:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: mudman Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Announcements? Message-ID: <20010411001319.H8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20010410215014.A8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org mudman wrote: > What would be the fundamental difference between the release and stable > branches? Why would one branch run less secure than another, especially > if both are used in server systems world wide? releases aren't branches, they're snapshots of a single point in time along the stable branch. If you cvsup -stable you'll get all the security (and other) fixes applied to it, if you just use a release you have to go out and find the security fixes yourself (not hard, given that they're all clearly mentioned in the advisories). Maybe some people prefer that. I just prefer the cvsup && make world combination. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message