[1525] in Release_7.7_team
patches patch release?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Oct 23 00:55:37 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:55:31 EDT
So, I had a random thought the other night. On more than one occasion
we've run into problems, because we were out-of date with Sun's
recommended/security patch list. This seems to occur because we get
the latest set in the spring as we are preparing the release, and
don't generally go back to the list of recommended patches unless we
have a specific problem. What do people think of the idea of foing a
patch release to explicitly update our Solaris (and IRIX) patches to
the latest recommended list, maybe around winter break/IAP of each
year? Would this be a lot of work? Am I confused and we've started
to encorporate new recommended patches as we do other patch releases?
Jonathon
