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Subject: Porter's Handbook doesn't address security issues
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>Number:         45948
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Porter's Handbook doesn't address security issues
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 02 19:00:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Tue Feb 11 09:14:07 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Tue Feb 11 09:14:07 PST 2003
>Originator:     605a1a9724ecc52ffc11dd6da4d8f665
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD system 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 13 20:04:26 EST 2002 605a1a9724ecc52ffc11dd6da4d8f665@system:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYSTEM i386


	
>Description:

After chatting with portmgr@ I've come up with the attached patch. kris has suggested some ideas for expanding "security" to an independent section, so I'll try to generate a lengthier "security for porters" patch as time permits.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

diff -ruN porters-handbook.orig/book.sgml porters-handbook/book.sgml
--- porters-handbook.orig/book.sgml	Fri Nov 29 15:37:36 2002
+++ porters-handbook/book.sgml	Fri Nov 29 16:08:06 2002
@@ -3954,6 +3954,10 @@
         doing a commit.  If the diff is more than about 20KB, please compress
         and uuencode it; otherwise, just include it in the PR as is.</para>
 
+      <important>
+       <para>If your upgrade is motivated by security concerns or a major regression in the currently committed port, please notify the Package Builders <email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email> to request immediate rebuilding and redistribution of your port's package. Unsuspecting users of &man.pkg_add.1; will otherwise continue to install the old version via <command>pkg_add -r</command> for several weeks.</para>
+      </important>
+
       <note>
         <para>Once again, please use &man.diff.1; and not &man.shar.1; to send
           updates to existing ports!</para>

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: arved 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 10 09:28:37 PST 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
doc-issue 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=45948 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: tom 
State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 11 09:13:37 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed with some minor changes - Thanks! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=45948 
>Unformatted:
