missing Advisory at ftp.freebsd.org

[Olli Hauer]

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 problems with ftp mirrors being out of date, while have complete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

OK, that is a good reason.
(with ftp it was very easy to get the advisories/patches with a script
  and wget without filtering icons and index.html files)


>> 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.

For humans who browse the website it is better to correct the link to CERT
at http://security.freebsd.org/ to the new location.


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Advisories are always signed using the FreeBSD Security Officer PGP key and are
archived, along with their associated patches, at our FTP CERT repository.
......................................................^^^^^^^^

At the time of this writing, the following advisories are currently available
(note that this list may be a few days out of date - for the very latest advisories
please check the FTP site):
.................^^^^^^^^

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olli