From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 12:12:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F8D153F9 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA11369; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:11:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:11:50 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Brett Glass , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > > Windows 3.1 was supported for a lot more than 6 months after Windows > > 95 came out. The 2.2.8 ports are old and moldy and in some cases > > will let the skript kiddies in. > (b) You can submit PRs, that will provide this functionality. If these > patches don't sacrifice the 3.x/4.0 branches, I will commit as many as > I can. He _could_ but he won't. I challenged him to point to one port that had a hole in it that hadn't been fixed (I mistyped, meant 'had') and for which the new patched/upgraded version couldn't be built under 2.2.8. He said something about wu-ftpd. Well, I wasn't going to respond because talking to Brett Glass is like talking to my monitor - it just does what it wants, not what I ask it to. But then I got interested, so I went and checked anon-cvs and looked at wu-ftpd. There were changes committed on the 10th of February (by ache) to close a security hole in vr12 (I have only heard of this one hole recently so I imagine it's the one BG is discussing). The cvs log for the Makefile shows: ------------------------------------------ 1.20 Wed Feb 10 12:48:04 1999 UTC by ache Diffs to 1.19 upgrade to vr13 to close security hole and lots of enhancements ---------------------------------------------------------------- Since then the version # has increased from vr13 to vr16. Guess what? It still builds fine on the 2.2.8 system I'm typing this on. Keep looking Brett. I am now going to ignore all of BG's "pie in the sky" ideas that he's never going to back up with any work, finish my thesis and use all my time that I'll be saving to help FreeBSD instead of trying to make sense of what BG is saying. Brett Taylor *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message