From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 28 16:14:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F84837B419 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:14:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA25545; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:14:33 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011128171207.056cd1d0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:14:23 -0700 To: Christopher Schulte , "Jay Keller" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Updating ssh In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011128165106.03da5e78@pop.schulte.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011128151923.041d0710@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 At 03:58 PM 11/28/2001, Christopher Schulte wrote: >At 03:26 PM 11/28/2001 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >>Perhaps FreeBSD should put these things in /usr/local from the get-go? > >No. /usr/local is for software installed outside the base system. The ssh package is part of the base system, Not really. It's not maintained by the FreeBSD Core Team and is updated independently. It merely "comes with" the base system. That's an important distinction. Myself, I believe that third-party products should be kept in separate directories -- preferably in the default ones used by the developers, unless these are totally bogus. If this were done with SSH, it would be in /usr/local from the get-go and upgrades would work. Ditto with Perl. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message