Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:10:15 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020418000849.02931cf8@pop3s.schulte.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020417230144.032ad390@nospam.lariat.org> <200204171923.g3HJNga58899@freefall.freebsd.org>
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At 11:11 PM 4/17/2002, Christopher Schulte wrote: >You can synchronize your source tree and recompile. See: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html Alas, this is not an acceptable solution. I realize that many people use FreeBSD on non-mission-critical systems, or to tinker with, and can afford downtime. But we need to create and maintain production machines. I hope that you can understand that doing a CVSup and then rebuilding the world every night (slowing the system to a crawl in the process and creating a system which might or might not be 100% stable) is not an acceptable solution. Nor is downloading a random snapshot. (Which one can't seem to do anyway these days; releng4.freebsd.org is refusing What is needed is a known good "p3" (or "p-whatever") build that can be installed quickly with minimum downtime. Yet, despite the fact that people routinely refer to (for example) "4.5-RELEASE-p3", no such build seems to actually exist. For those of us who create and manage production servers, there should be. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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