From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 11 5: 4:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from stsws5.die.supsi.ch (stsws5.die.supsi.ch [193.5.154.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB31F37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 05:04:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nunnari@die.supsi.ch) Received: from die.supsi.ch (pcm2022.die.supsi.ch [193.5.152.22]) by stsws5.die.supsi.ch (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA28749; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:49:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3AD4475A.4050104@die.supsi.ch> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:00:26 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Derbyshire Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Announcements? References: <3AD33218.FE8D7ACD@ursine.com> <001d01c0c1fc$23d73680$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410215014.A8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> <007d01c0c274$58ff11c0$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org stable is not pre-beta. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html ...cut and paste from the above: 19.2.2. Staying Stable with FreeBSD If you are using FreeBSD in a production environment and want to make sure you have the latest fixes from the -CURRENT branch, you want to be running -STABLE. This is the tree that -RELEASEs are branched from when we are putting together a new release. For example, if you have a copy of 3.4-RELEASE, that is really just a ``snapshot'' from the -STABLE branch that we put on CDROM. In order to get any changes merged into -STABLE after the -RELEASE, you need to ``track'' the -STABLE branch. 19.2.2.1. What is FreeBSD-STABLE? FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch for a more low-key and conservative set of changes intended for our next mainstream release. Changes of an experimental or untested nature do not go into this branch (see FreeBSD-CURRENT). Drew Derbyshire wrote: > Ben Smithurst wrote ... > > >> Well if you want the latest security fixes you shouldn't be running a >> -release anyway, that's that the -stable branch is for. > > > One should not expect production servers to be running pre-beta code. > Running -stable means you get *everything*, and that's not what a production > server owner wants or needs. > > (FreeBSD needs a reasonable patch utility (ala Redhat Linux's up2date) for > semi-automated patch management -- but this ground has been covered before. > I'm not trying to open that can of worms here.) > > -ahd- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:nunnari@die.supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento di Informatica e Elettronica http://www.die.supsi.ch SUPSI-DIE Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108557 6928 Manno """ Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo======================== MY OPINIONS ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MY EMPLOYER To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message