On 11/6/14, 7:47 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Chet Ramey writes ("Re: Shellshock-vulnerable version still most obvious on
> ftp.gnu.org"):
>> I will put tarballs with patches in the usual places within a few days.
>
> Thanks, that would be very helpful.
>
> For the future, it might be worth considering whether it's really
> sensible, nowadays, to be distributing bash as `.0 tarball with
> patches'. That made sense when bandwidth was much scarcer, disks (and
> backup systems) much smaller in relation to source code releases, and
> when most people would get bash directly from ftp.gnu.org.
>
> But in the current environment it's looking rather quaint. We could
> probably provide a full tarball for each patch release.
That is supposed to be one of the advantages of using git. You can always
get a tarball of the latest release with all patches applied using
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-master.tar.gz
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