Bug 233749 - net/samba47, net/samba48: Merge ports r486043 to 2018Q4 (Fixes several vulnerabilities)
Mel Pilgrim
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Sat Dec 22 12:40:11 UTC 2018
On 2018-12-22 4:02, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> On 2018-12-12 19:19, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
>>> Would someone work on ports/233749, please? The original security fix
>>> was committed to head 15 days ago, but has yet to be merged to quarterly.
>>
>> I realize it's the holidays, but this is a security fix for a major port.
>> Or is it the plan to let this go unfixed in 2018Q4?
>
> Hoping about a plan is unfortunatly expecting a bit too much right now,
> with all the updates, holidays etc going on. I guess it's not easy to estimate
> if the MFH would fit right in.
>
> After checking the commits to samba47, I guess something like this might work:
>
> /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mfh 2018Q4 486043
I don't have a commit bit.
Instead I create local copies of specific ports as a poor pleb's MFH
(e.g., 2018Q4/local/net_samba48 copied from head/net/samba48). The
ability to switch pkg origins makes it fairly painless for most ports.
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