Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:16:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net> To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: security fixes Message-ID: <20020701161533.E50179-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> In-Reply-To: <009201c2213a$dd3a4b00$edec910c@fbccarthage.com>
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Well, that all makes enough sense. Yes, I know about production machines. Got quite a few of them to be responsible for. And always have run RELEASE but thought to ask for clarification about STABLE. Thanks to all who replied. - Ralph On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ralph Huntington" <rjh@mohawk.net> > To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> > Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:41 PM > Subject: Re: security fixes > > >Hmmm... I would think STABLE is what one sould > >want to run on a production > >machine. I'm beginning to feel confused again. > > As opposed to -CURRENT, yes. However, > the committers want everyone to realize that > once in a while you might build -STABLE with > something broken (albeit rare, as in the coincidence > of the "blue moon" and "hen's teeth" together...) > but it still could happen. -RELEASE is a -STABLE > that gets frozen for a while to see if any problems > pop up, or if it can be crowed about and burned > to CD with confidence (I hope the RELENG team > doesn't think I'm minimizing their hard work here.) > > Some people read the warning about -STABLE in > the Handbook (that I quoted earlier) and decide only > to run -RELEASE and patch security fixes, and > there is a cvs tag for this, called RELENG_4_x. > This is where a little confusion comes in, because > after a while they quit patching the older releases. > The official line is that it's the current release (4.6) > and the last (4.5) that are being patched, so if > you're still running 4.4-R, (for example) you're no > longer sure you can cvsup with RELENG_4_4 > and get any new patches. > > As I said, -STABLE's running fine for me > right now and has everytime I've tried it. > > [If there's confusion on the term "production > machine," I take this to mean an active > www/mail/file server that you can't afford > to have downtime on....] > > KDK > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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