4.6-R (Was: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl)

[Peter C. Lai]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:04:42AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:45PM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > According to a HEADSUP sent out by Jacques, RELENG_4_6 was supported by
> > SA-03:15, and the CVS tree updated. RELENG_4_6 was also supported by
> > SA-03:18, but I'm not certain if its CVS tree was updated (neither the
> > HEADSUP nor the SA explicitly says so, but I'll bet it has been).
> 
> Yes, the SA says so:
> 
>  Corrected: [...] 2003-10-03 20:24:59 UTC (RELENG_4_6, 4.6.2-RELEASE-p26)
> 
> > I'm not sure if RELENG_4_6 is EOL'd or not (though I think it is). Having
> > said that, the Security team does release patches for EOL'd releases as
> > they see fit.
> 
> No need to guess.  See the table at 
> <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv >.
> 
> > > I was expecting to be able to manually patch my 4.6 sources 
> > > and recompile just the crypto/secure subsystems but instead I was forced to 
> 
> Manual patching is really only recommended for gurus.  Please use
> CVSup and report any problems.

Yes, I CVSup'd to RELENG_4_6 and the secure/crypto subsystem failed to
build correctly as I mentioned before (breaks on unresolved symbols during
linking to libssh); DJ Hawkey didn't report any problems so I have no idea what
was up :(

> 
> > > upgrade to 4.8 which broke a ton of other stuff (mainly ports). Maybe I should
> > > have moved to RELENG_4_7 instead. 
> 
> RELENG_4_7 was EoL'd on September 30.  Hmm, actually I think
> I'll extend that to October 31, considering the delay on FreeBSD
> 4.9-RELEASE.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
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