Qucik question: Whats a port freeze?
From: "Aaron P. Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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