From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 10 13:18: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from nova.fnal.gov (nova.fnal.gov [131.225.121.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6046B37B405 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zingelman@fnal.gov) Received: from localhost (tez@localhost) by nova.fnal.gov (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA18194; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:17:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nova.fnal.gov: tez owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:17:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim Zingelman X-Sender: To: Jim Durham Cc: alexus , erb , Josef Karthauser , Nuno Teixeira , Subject: Re: RELEASE 4.3 -> RELENG_4_3: SUCCESSFULLY but ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jim Durham wrote: > The tag "RELENG_4_3" means that cvsup only incorporates security > fixes to the kernel. This is false. RELENG_4_3 includes critical security fixes in BOTH kernel and userland. It is NOT always safe to only rebuild your kernel if you are updating to RELENG_4_3. I cite as a reference this message from Kris Kennaway: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freebsd-stable/message/39749 - Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message