On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:48:53PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:17:50PM -0700, Will Andrews wrote: > > > > ... The rule is that changes are always committed to > > -CURRENT first, unless they do not apply. This rule is rarely > > broken in FreeBSD, and certainly never broken for security issues. > > That's of course expected and appreciated. But consider the different > actions required of a reasonably paranoid FreeBSD SA on receipt of > a security advisory: If following anything but -current, cvsup and > check the versions of the listed files. If following -current, > either trust that the updates made it to the mirror of choice, or > look up on www.freebsd.org what the latest versions of the listed > files are and check that you have them. Since the SO is presumably > taking the changes from -current, I hope it would not be too much > of an imposition to list those versions in the advisory as well. >
If you're running -current, then you are reading the cvs-all or at least the cvs-src mailing list. It should be apparent that the fixes hit -current before the SA is announced. -- Steve _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
