From a90b86c5415e774bac25e7ef688063ed2fb5bdfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Murray Stokely Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:25:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a footnote admitting that we can't support old versions of FreeBSD forever, and point the user to freebsd.org/security for more information about which branches/releases are currently supported. PR: docs/29182 Submitted by: Tony Fleisher --- .../books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml index 8b35ac0a41..24fc577a91 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -312,7 +312,15 @@ subscribe cvs-all &os.stable; branch, you do not need to track &os.stable; to do this. Every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to fix the problem for the releases it - affects, and tracking an entire development branch just + affects + That's not quite true. We can't continue to + support old releases of FreeBSD forever, although we do + support them for many years. For a complete description + of the current security policy for old releases of + FreeBSD, please see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security + + , and tracking an entire development branch just for security reasons is likely to bring in a lot of unwanted changes as well.