On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Colin Percival wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Colin Percival wrote:
>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/CERT/
>>>
>>> We stopped uploading advisories there because we kept on running into
>>> problems with ftp mirrors being out of date, while have complete control
>>> over the security.freebsd.org webserver and can make sure files are there
>>> before we send out the advisory.
>>
>> Sounds like we should remove this from ftp-master so it stops being
>> replicated, or at least put a note there about it being historic. Any
>> preference on which? It would be easy for me to put a warning and
>> redirection at the top of README or rename CERT to CERT.old.
>
> All of the old advisories point to ftp.freebsd.org (both as "the latest
> revision of this advisory can be found at" and for the patches), so we
> should leave the existing files there for the near future at least. Adding
> a README pointing people towards security.freebsd.org sounds like the best
> option to me.
What I've done is update the README and index.html to reflect the new
location, but left the existing files in place for historical reasons.
Thanks,
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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