FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

[Gary Palmer]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 08:55:35PM +0200, George Kontostanos wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Matthew Seaman
> <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 23/12/2011 18:05, George Kontostanos wrote:
> >> Are all cvs mirror servers updated regarding these changes ?
> >>
> >> ANYBODY ????
> >
> > Should have by now. ?Commits usually take about an hour to propagate to
> > the official cvsup servers.
> >
> > Easy enough to tell though -- the advisories have all the version
> > numbers in, and you'ld only need to check a file or two from each of
> > them to be reasonably sure you'ld got all the updates.
> >
> > ? ? ? ?Cheers,
> >
> > ? ? ? ?Matthew
> >
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> >
> 
> Thanks for the info Matthew. I think though that it is best for all to
> first make sure that the servers all updated before sending out all
> those security advisories.

I don't believe they're monitored like that.  If you want the updates
quickly, download the files referenced in the advisories.  My build was
done before my local cvsup server picked up the changes.

Gary