Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 00:06:54 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey Message-ID: <2DB25B04-BCE6-41D2-9D95-03C58A493E2C@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org> References: <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org>
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On May 21, 2006, at 11:55 , Colin Percival wrote: > The Security Team has been concerned for some time by anecdotal > reports > concerning the number of FreeBSD systems which are not being promptly > updated or are running FreeBSD releases which have passed their End of > Life dates and are no longer supported. In order to better understand > which FreeBSD versions are in use, how people are (or aren't) keeping > them updated, and why it seems so many systems are not being > updated, I I have a 6-STABLE box that is not going to be updated to 6.1 any time soon, because my personal mail will have to be offline while I do so --- including nuking and rebuilding all ports because the ports tree has been thrashed by multiple low level updates that affect a large percentage of the tree --- and it's only a 600MHz box so it will be offline for most of a week during that upgrade. And I'm uncertain how downgrading it to 6.0-RELEASE+security patches will complicate things (downgrading via cvsup/buildworld is not a supported option, last I checked). Granted, I probably should have stuck with 6.0-R --- but then, experience has shown me that the more reliable option is to wait a week or two after release and then install -STABLE. In short: keeping FreeBSD up to date tends to be painful at best. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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