Re: downgrade 4.11-stable to 4.11R

From: Erik Trulsson (ertr1013_at_student.uu.se)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:57:39 +0200
To: *** hoogendijk <***@nagual.st>

    On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:46:53PM +0200, *** hoogendijk wrote:
    > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:31:27 -0500
    > Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
    >
    > > On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, *** hoogendijk wrote:
    > > > Is it possible to go back to 4.11R if you've updated src to
    > > > 4.11-stable first and updated sthe system w/ make buildworld,
    > > > install..
    > > >
    > > > If I put the 4.11R sources back in /usr/src and do a make/build
    > > > etc.. again will my fbsd system really be 4.11R again without soem
    > > > 'nasty' traces of the update?
    > >
    > > Switch to using RELENG_4_11_RELEASE as your cvsup tag, and you can
    > > revert your sources back. You'll be missing the recent security
    > > patch, though-- using RELENG_4_11 might be better.
    > >
    > > Why do you want to revert back to the older sources?
    >
    > RELENG_4_11 was the idea. Why I want back? I want my server on the
    > internet to be as secure as it can be and for what I understand 4.11 is
    > safer to use as 4-stable (in which always can sneak in little bugs, or
    > is this to paranoid?)

    Although there is a small *possibility* that some bug has managed to
    sneak in to RELENG_4 that is not present in RELENG_4_11, you should
    contrast this to the *fact* that there are bugs which has been fixed in
    RELENG_4, but which has not been - and will not be - fixed in
    RELENG_4_11.

    That being said, in terms of security there is probably no difference
    whatsoever between RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_11 and going back to
    RELENG_4_11 from RELENG_4 for security reasons is mostly just a waste
    of time and energy. 

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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se
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