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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: Security ad Reliability advisories
From:       SCHWACK <schwack () neotrance ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2002-08-29 15:02:43
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Saad Kadhi wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:44:42PM -0500, Gerardo Santana Gomez Garrido wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:09:19PM -0700, Ben Goren wrote:
> > > On Wed,  Aug 28, 2002  at 01:21:18PM -0500, Gerardo  Santana Gomez
> > > Garrido wrote:
> > >
> > > > Did you  receive all  the advisories  for OpenBSD  3.1?? I don't
> > > > think so.  There are currently 14 advisories for OpenBSD 3.1 and
> > > > most of them are missed.
> > >
> > > Ah, here  we have something we  can work with. You want  to see an
> > > errata@openbsd.org list that  tells you of each  change to -STABLE
> > > worthy of being described on /errata.html.
> I was about to hack a perl script that will parse errata.html and compare it to
> a previous rev. if changes are detected it will email etc. and maybe even
> download patches/ initiate a cvs up -rOPENBSD...etc.
>
> Is anybody aware of such work so to avoid reinventing the wheel and avoiding to
> spill my (bad) code ?
>
> > Extracted from mail.html:
> >
> > "security-announce
> > Security announcements. This low volume list receives OpenBSD security
> > advisories and pointers to security patches as they become available."
> >
> > I don't think another list is required, just give security-announce its
> > appropriate use.
> yes. the last I discussed with some of the developers, word was that
> security-announce was not handled properly (as you may have noticed). They were
> conscious of the problem and they'll probably do something about it.
>
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> Saad Kadhi
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