Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:16:29 PST From: Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sjohn@airlinksys.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason.DiCioccio@Epylon.com Subject: Re: Security Announcements Message-ID: <20010411191629.27C3213642@bluenugget.net>
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:06:53 -0700 bmah@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > If memory serves me right, Jason DiCioccio wrote: > > > And how would I know which day/time was considered reasonably > bug-free. > > I do not know of any webpages or anything that tell you this, > > Read -stable (you are doing that right?). I care more about how > machines work in my own environment that what some Web page says. > Yes. But of course the -STABLE/CURRENT branches change by the second. However you clear this up below. > You mentioned the hypothetical case of someone running -STABLE on boxes > that needed to be "up at all times". Tell me that this someone would be > willing to drop a new version of *any* operating system on > mission-critical machines without testing on their own scratch machines > first. ~20 lines of code (for example) in a patch is a lot easier to go through (and to trust as a result) than the many more lines involved in a diff between 2 snapshots (moving targets) of a branch that are, say, 1 month apart. > > > nor does > > any given time in the -STABLE branch get as much testing as a -RELEASE.. > > For people who need version of FreeBSD that's been though testing > (and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that), well, they should be > running -RELEASE. There's been a lot of discussion as to how to deal > with the issue of security updates to -RELEASEs, and the message that > rwatson recently posted outlines the result of that discussion. I > think this is going to solve a lot of problems, even though it's going > to create more work for those who make advisories and patches. Yes, I definitely like the new branch tag idea in 4.3. :-) It definitely clears up a lot of my concerns.. Cheers, -JD- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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