Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:17:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Bergfeld <jbergfel@yahoo.com> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <20020418181744.45846.qmail@web14201.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418120036.021ceb30@nospam.lariat.org>
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look, the existing process seems to work fine for everyone else, so if you want a new way to upgrade, develop it yourself. now stop trolling and let's move on. --- Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote: > At 11:54 AM 4/18/2002, Jamie Norwood wrote: > > >> Not true at all. What administrators using FreeBSD need is not > >> "hand-holding" but a way to upgrade to a known good snapshot. > >> Not necessarily the absolute latest, but one with the needed > >> patches which others have seen to work. > > > >This is RELENG_4_5. What are you looking for that it does not > >provide? > > This is a CVS tag, not a build. Also, what you get when you > bring it in will change over time, so you can't easily answer > the question, "What patch level is this server running?" > What's needed is builds either from this or from -STABLE > (with testing to make sure nothing's broken) that one can > download and install without recompiling the world. With > numbers such that one can say, "This server is at -p3 and > a new security hole was found.... I'll upgrade to -p4 tonight." > Simple, convenient, and likely to work without fuss, so that > we can install the build and get back to more important things, > like developing code. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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