Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip

From: Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org)
Date: 04/18/02 

Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:06:28 -0600
To: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

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

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