Re: Security Branches

From: Alexandr Kovalenko (never@nevermind.kiev.ua)
Date: 07/30/02


Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:46:46 +0300
From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To: William Allmendinger <allmenwf@udmercy.edu>

Hello, William Allmendinger!

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:21:12AM -0400, you wrote:

> Please excuse what is possiblly a very easy question. How
> does one find out what the latest security branch is for a
> particular release? In the advisory for reslov, it states to
> upgrade you system to the latest security branch,
> 4.5-RELEASE-p7. How do I find out if this is the latest one
> to upgrade/install from. I can't move to 4.6 yet due to an
> isue with the boot loader and scsi, waiting for 6.1 to see
> if it has a fix. These are production systems and I need
> them as secure and stable as possible. Thanks.
Just track RELENG_4_5 branch.

P.S. Moving to freebsd-questions as it is FAQ.

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