Quick question: Whats a port freeze?
Normally, the port committers make changes to the ports tree all of the time, on a continuing basis. A ports freeze occurs to help get the ports tree caught up and avoid making sweeping changes just before a new version of the OS is released.
See: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
During a ports freeze, changes need to be approved by portmgr.
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On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
I'm new to the bsd's, came from linux and i'm having a bit of difficulty
figuring out the general philosophy.
OK. (Welcome!)
One of the major reasons that i decided to try out the 'bsds' is because of the security. I'm having a hard time however figuring out how security issues in the ports get dealt with when there is a port freeze, like now. The best example i can think of is gaim...(i almost didn't recheck the port on the 4.10 tree, it's now mysteriously up to date, phew.)
As I mentioned above, the ports tree still changes during a freeze.
Security fixes to ports are very likely to get quick approval by portmgr.
......slightly altered next paragraph....
lets say i found out there is a msn slp buffer overflow (like currently)
and i wanted to protect myself....so i cvsuped my ports tree and then
wanted to portupgrade....... problem is...since it's a port freeze...up
until a few days ago it's still at 0.82 not the 1.02 that is out now, I
watched it and never saw version 1.00 or 1.01. Are the ports frozen
_except_for_security_fixes or am i missing something.
I was going to say, "the latter", but maybe it's a little of both. :-)
Note that you are free to update ports manually. Try looking for a PR containing the changes to update the port(s) you care about, or perhaps by doing the work yourself.
I looked around on the lists for this but didn't see it and it seems like a fairly big deal if security issues arise during a freeze.
This issue was recently discussed here:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=146244+0+/usr/local/www/ db/text/2004/freebsd-current/20041017.freebsd-current
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=149246+0+archive/2004/ freebsd-current/20041017.freebsd-current
-- -Chuck
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