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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 14:42:33 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [Brett Glass] Re: Patch/Announcement for DHCPD remote root hole?
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At 01:37 PM 5/15/2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

>On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:25:33PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>> I seem to recall that there's some way to tell /stand/sysinstall to
>> grab packages from -STABLE. But new users won't know that. (*I* don't
>> even remember what magic incantation you have to type in.) 
>
>Then why don't you do something useful, determine exactly what the
>incantation is, and work with a doc committer to get sysinstall
>updated?

Because I doubt that this is possible without a commitment from
the admins to maintain the updated packages in a place that will
be consistent from version to version. There's more to be done here
than just a patch; policy also has to be set.

--Brett


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