[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh [REVISED]

[James Raftery]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:50:06AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> In this way we have three patches to distribute instead of 1 per
> release.  (Likewise, there is a single sendmail patch instead of 1 per
> release.)

I see; I hadn't considered that version.h would need a custom patch on
each branch. Updated patch strings probably aren't worth the
complication.

> You can also pull down the ancilliary patches (version.h, newvers.sh,
> UPDATING, etc) via other mechanisms (e.g. anon CVS, cvsweb) if you
> like.

Indeed - I have already done so. My scanssh output now looks a lot
healthier :)


Thanks,
james