From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 20 8:11:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E0A37B40A; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5155BBE; Mon, 20 May 2002 10:10:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4KFAes00586; Mon, 20 May 2002 10:10:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:10:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200205201510.g4KFAes00586@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <200205201008.g4KA8uKl000787_midway.uchicago.edu@ns.sol.net> <3CE8D057.BEA07F0_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <3CE8D057.BEA07F0_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: Is 4.3 security branch officially "out of commission"? X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.security To: sobomax@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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