missing Advisory at ftp.freebsd.org

[Robert Watson]

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 problems with ftp mirrors being out of date, while have complete control 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