interim port versions

[Spiral Eyed Girl]

Qucik question: Whats a port freeze?

>From: "Aaron P. Martinez" <ml at proficuous.com>
>To: questions at FreeBSD.org
>Subject: interim port versions
>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:48:18 -0500
>
>
>I'm new to the bsd's, came from linux and i'm having a bit of difficulty
>figuring out the general philosophy.
>
>One of the major reasons that i decided to try out the 'bsds'  is
>because of the security.  I'm having a hard time however figuring out
>how security issues in the ports get dealt with when there is a port
>freeze, like now.  The best example i can think of is gaim...(i almost
>didn't recheck the port on the 4.10 tree, it's now mysteriously up to
>date, phew.)
>
>......slightly altered next paragraph....
>lets say i found out there is a msn slp buffer overflow (like currently)
>and i wanted to protect myself....so i cvsuped my ports tree and then
>wanted to portupgrade....... problem is...since it's a port freeze...up
>until a few days ago it's still at 0.82  not the 1.02 that is out now, I
>watched it and never saw version 1.00 or 1.01.  Are the ports frozen
>_except_for_security_fixes or am i missing something.
>
>
>I looked around on the lists for this but didn't see it and it seems
>like a fairly big deal if security issues arise during a freeze.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Aaron
>
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