Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11257 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41839 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Jul 2004 11:38:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41814 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2004 11:38:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail1.thewrittenword.com) (67.95.107.114) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2004 11:38:13 -0000 Received: by mail1.thewrittenword.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B61741FA; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:38:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:38:13 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20040715113813.GC33372@mail1.thewrittenword.com> Reply-To: internals@lists.php.net References: <20040714211247.GF5250@mail1.thewrittenword.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Backport of PHP 4.3.8 security patches to 4.3.7 From: php-internals@mlists.thewrittenword.com (Albert Chin) On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:55:33AM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Albert Chin wrote: > > > Is the following patch correct in addressing the security fixes from > > 4.3.8 for 4.3.7? > > Why would you want to do this? 4.3.8 is exactly 4.3.7 + all the security > patches. Backporting makes absolutely no sense as you'd be re-creating > 4.3.8. Depends on how you've built PHP. We install PHP into a separate directory for each version, to make testing new versions less painful. Backporting the fixes means less work for those currently running 4.3.7. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)