Re: FreeBSD Patch question

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 09/28/03

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To: "V. Jones" <vjones62@earthlink.net>

    On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:40:35PM -0400, V. Jones wrote:
    > Thanks to everyone who responded - my question really had more to do with applying patches as they are presented in the various security advisories. It sounds like most of you don't do it that way; it sounds like you track freebsd-stable using cvsup. However, section 21.2.2.2 of the handbook seems to advise against doing this when all you want to do is apply security fixes:
    >
    > "While it is true that security fixes also go into the FreeBSD-STABLE branch, you do not need to track FreeBSD-STABLE to do this. Every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to fix the problem for the releases it affects [1] , and tracking an entire development branch just for security reasons is likely to bring in a lot of unwanted changes as well."

    You can track a RELEASE branch instead, this is one reason for their
    existence. Only security-officer@ has the power to mandate that a patch
    be committed to a release branch after it has been released.

    This is what I do for my production machines.

    BMS
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