Re: Updates for old releases
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:44:21PM -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: great! thank you all for the help. right now Im compiling the source for openbsd 4.0 stable (at least the last, since it is no linger maintained) I know it is better to use 4.2, but it does not depends only of my opnion, I'm configuring the firewall for a customer, and now I can at most make a advice. Tom You should tell the customer that 4.0 is no longer supported. Only 4.2 and 4.1 are supported. And in a couple of months when 4.3 is released, 4.1 will no longer be supported. This is in addition to the major improvements for firewall performance that are in 4.2 and have already been mentioned. Ken
Re: Updates for old releases
On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 12:07:43 +, Edd wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote: About a year ago I started to create regular builds of the -stable trees (the two supported trees). You can use them, if you trust me ;-) You can find links to some mirrors on http://www.z74.net/openbsd.html I think it is great that you are doing this, however why are you a third party? Can you not upload your binaries to the official mirrors? I'd be happy to upload it to the official ftp-site and mirrors, but I'm not a OpenBSD developer. If the OpenBSD team has enough trust and would like to put these file sets on the official mirrors, then they are of course more than welcome to do so. I'm not sure if all mirrors are able to spare a few extra GB for the stable file sets and I don't have the hardware to build a release for all supported architectures. I don't know if this is a real problem. Maurice
Re: Updates for old releases
great! thank you all for the help. right now Im compiling the source for openbsd 4.0 stable (at least the last, since it is no linger maintained) I know it is better to use 4.2, but it does not depends only of my opnion, I'm configuring the firewall for a customer, and now I can at most make a advice. Tom
Re: Updates for old releases
On Feb 23, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Antonio Lobato wrote: I know it is better to use 4.2, but it does not depends only of my opnion, I'm configuring the firewall for a customer, and now I can at most make a advice. Advise them to use 4.2. There are significant speed improvements to pf, among other things.
Re: Updates for old releases
2008/2/22, Antonio Lobato [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I read http://openbsd.org/security.html (and stable.html), but could not make sure about my question. If today I download old versions (say /pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/cd40.iso) of openbsd, does it already includes the fixes listed in release != stable; you'll have to apply the patches (or get the/a newer release)
Re: Updates for old releases
Antonio Lobato schrieb: Hi all! I read http://openbsd.org/security.html (and stable.html), but could not make sure about my question. If today I download old versions (say /pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/cd40.iso) of openbsd, does it already includes the fixes listed in http://openbsd.org/security.html#40 (or #41)? No If no, is there available the same cd40.iso but including these fixes or must I to apply the patches on original system? No, and don't use 4.0 as 4.2 is already available and supported. If there is some doc explaining it with more details, please give me the pointers. Thanks, You want to check http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors Tom guido
Re: Updates for old releases
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:48:14AM -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: Hi all! I read http://openbsd.org/security.html (and stable.html), but could not make sure about my question. If today I download old versions (say /pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/cd40.iso) of openbsd, does it already includes the fixes listed in http://openbsd.org/security.html#40 (or #41)? If no, is there available the same cd40.iso but including these fixes or must I to apply the patches on original system? It is the original release cdrom. What you can do is make your own iso image. See man release. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
Re: Updates for old releases
On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 05:48:14 -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: Hi all! I read http://openbsd.org/security.html (and stable.html), but could not make sure about my question. If today I download old versions (say /pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/cd40.iso) of openbsd, does it already includes the fixes listed in http://openbsd.org/security.html#40 (or #41)? If no, is there available the same cd40.iso but including these fixes or must I to apply the patches on original system? If there is some doc explaining it with more details, please give me the pointers. There's more on this on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors To summarize: what's on the CD's and FTP-servers is -release, it is not updated. The patches for -stable are only distributed as source code. There are no official builds of the -stable tree. About a year ago I started to create regular builds of the -stable trees (the two supported trees). You can use them, if you trust me ;-) You can find links to some mirrors on http://www.z74.net/openbsd.html Maurice
Re: Updates for old releases
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote: About a year ago I started to create regular builds of the -stable trees (the two supported trees). You can use them, if you trust me ;-) You can find links to some mirrors on http://www.z74.net/openbsd.html I think it is great that you are doing this, however why are you a third party? Can you not upload your binaries to the official mirrors? -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
Re: Updates for old releases
One question I have is if 4.0 is stilled being patched? I notice that there are several patches out in 4.2 or 4.1, for example: 005: RELIABILITY FIX: January 11, 2008 All architectures A missing NULL pointer check can lead to a kernel panic. A source code patch exists which remedies this problem But either these don't apply to 4.0, or 4.0 is not having patches created anymore. That is the official policy for older releases with regards to patches? Thanks, Jay 2008/2/22, Antonio Lobato [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I read http://openbsd.org/security.html (and stable.html), but could not make sure about my question. If today I download old versions (say /pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/cd40.iso) of openbsd, does it already includes the fixes listed in release != stable; you'll have to apply the patches (or get the/a newer release)
Re: Updates for old releases
Jay Hart schrieb: One question I have is if 4.0 is stilled being patched? I notice that there are several patches out in 4.2 or 4.1, for example: 005: RELIABILITY FIX: January 11, 2008 All architectures A missing NULL pointer check can lead to a kernel panic. A source code patch exists which remedies this problem But either these don't apply to 4.0, or 4.0 is not having patches created anymore. Because 4.0 is no longer maintained after 4.2 was released. That is the official policy for older releases with regards to patches? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors Kind regards, Markus
Re: Updates for old releases
Jay, Only the current version (4.2) and 1 previous version (4.1) are supported. That means no more patches for 4.0 as soon as 4.2 came out. For more information, please refer to the OpenBSD FAQ. s -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jay Hart Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:41 AM To: Mark Prins Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Updates for old releases One question I have is if 4.0 is stilled being patched? I notice that there are several patches out in 4.2 or 4.1, for example: 005: RELIABILITY FIX: January 11, 2008 All architectures A missing NULL pointer check can lead to a kernel panic. A source code patch exists which remedies this problem But either these don't apply to 4.0, or 4.0 is not having patches created anymore. That is the official policy for older releases with regards to patches? Thanks, Jay 2008/2/22, Antonio Lobato [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I read http://openbsd.org/security.html (and stable.html), but could not make sure about my question. If today I download old versions (say /pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/cd40.iso) of openbsd, does it already includes the fixes listed in release != stable; you'll have to apply the patches (or get the/a newer release)
Re: Updates for old releases
Jay Hart schrieb: One question I have is if 4.0 is stilled being patched? I notice that there are several patches out in 4.2 or 4.1, for example: 005: RELIABILITY FIX: January 11, 2008 All architectures A missing NULL pointer check can lead to a kernel panic. A source code patch exists which remedies this problem But either these don't apply to 4.0, or 4.0 is not having patches created anymore. Because 4.0 is no longer maintained after 4.2 was released. Thanks, that means I will be upgrading to 4.2 stable (at least) this weekend. Jay That is the official policy for older releases with regards to patches? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors Kind regards, Markus
