Re: RELENG_4_4

From: Drew Tomlinson (drew@mykitchentable.net)
Date: 04/26/02 

From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, <security@freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:12:42 -0700

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:32 PM

[snip]

> We will be moving those on 4.1.1 to 4.4 so that they are all at the
same
> level, but we cannot move them up to 4.5 or 4.8 or whatever for
> at least another 18 months as they don't upgrade production systems
more
> than once on 2 years in general.

Instead of calling it an "upgrade", call it a system "patch". It just
so happens that the RELENG_4_5 "patch" will ensure that the OS is up to
date on security issues and more! :)

Cheers,

Drew

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