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Date:      Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:14:45 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [simon@FreeBSD.org: cvs commit: ports/x11/nvidia-driver Makefile]
Message-ID:  <20061022151445.GA83158@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061020223843.GB1026@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <20061016220805.GE1040@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20061017054250.GA44127@FreeBSD.org> <20061020223843.GB1026@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:38:44AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2006.10.17 05:42:51 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:08:06AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > FYI.  Rumor has it that the latest beta driver has this fixed, but I
> > > haven't had time to confirm this yet.
> > 
> > Thanks.  I was thinking on whether should I update driver to latest beta
> > (mainly for compiz-related stuff) but since no one actually nudged me to
> > do so, and us being pretty close to a freeze, I've decided to hold off.
> > 
> > Since we're not building package of nVidia driver anyways, marking it
> > FORBIDDEN for a time being seems right to me.  If you manage to actually
> > confirm this vulnerability is true, and it is in fact fixed in latest
> > beta, please ping me again.
> 
> NVIDIA says this is now fixed in 1.0-8776 which is not a beta release.
> Could you update the port?  While we don't have packages, it would
> still be nice to get this fixed as soon as possible.  Please run
> patches by secteam or portmgr before commit due to the freeze as
> usual.

Will do.

./danfe



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