From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 10 16:18:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cloud9.pain.net (cloud9.pain.net [209.58.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E67C37B406 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erb@cloud9.pain.net) Received: from localhost (erb@localhost) by cloud9.pain.net (8.11.5/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7ANIEV68304; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:18:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from erb@cloud9.pain.net) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:18:13 -0400 (EDT) From: erb To: Tim Zingelman Cc: Jim Durham , alexus , 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 If we are referring to the topic I brought up about my newkernel script earlier, I use the RELENG_4 tag, which I believe is safe to only rebuild the kernel for. On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Tim Zingelman wrote: > 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