Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:10:40 -0500 (CDT) From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) To: sobomax@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 4.3 security branch officially "out of commission"? Message-ID: <200205201510.g4KFAes00586@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3CE8D057.BEA07F0_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net> References: <200205201008.g4KA8uKl000787_midway.uchicago.edu@ns.sol.net> <3CE8D057.BEA07F0_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>
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In article <3CE8D057.BEA07F0_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > David Syphers wrote: >> >> On Monday 20 May 2002 04:37 am, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> > Folks, >> > >> > I was notified by the members of the local FreeBSD community (we have >> > a very strong presence of FreeBSD in ISP circles here) that seemingly >> > 4.3 security branch isn't supported anymore, even though there was no >> > official announcement about decommissioning. >> >> See http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html. I quote >> --- >> At this time, security advisories are being released for: >> >> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE >> FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE >> FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE >> >> Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly encouraged to >> upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned above. >> --- >> >> As Kris Kennaway mentioned on May 8 (security@ archives...), the official >> lifetimes of the security branches are not long, although the security team >> may choose to extend support longer as a courtesy, presumably if they have >> the manpower and interest. > > I see. > > What is the official procedure when somebody not from the security > team want to maintain older releases? For example, as I said there is > significant push from the local community to merge recent security > fixes into older releases, so that it is likely that they could > provide to me with tested patches for older releases they are > interested in. May I merge them into 4.3 security branch without my > commit bit being suspended for inappropriate MFCs into security > branch? > > -Maxim Quite apart from what Jacques an Kris lay down as the Official Party Line(tm), you might want to look at http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html It's my own small effort to provide what you - and I - are looking for. Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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