Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:18:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is freebsd distributed like this? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971024191134.20278C-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971024215119.6289B-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I understand most of the FreeBSD release system, however i have a problem > with it that i feel should be addressed. > > Why are there releases floating around with security holes in them? > certain 'fixes' that are trivial but nessesary like the procfs patch > should be applied all around the source tree as soon as possible. > > I understand that that is what the -stable releases are for... but it's > almost being too much of a purist to let that stuff continue to be in > freebsd. If you are talking about older releases, then you shouldn't be using older releases. By deleting older releases, you can't deny they ever existed. If you change an older release, it is becomes something different. Also, there aren't any "stable releases". There are 2.1-stable and 2.2-stable branches, which releases have been made from at certain points in time. I don't really see a problem here, but again, I also have an archive of 1.1.5.1 around still. > .________________________________________________________________________ __ _ > |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin --"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" > |perlsta@sunyit.edu --"who was that masked admin?" > |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta > : > ' Tom
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