Those of you who are using FreeBSD Update on FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 may have
seen the following scary message:
WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
Any security issues discovered after Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 UTC 2006
will not have been corrected.
I told FreeBSD Update that the EoL for FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 would be December
18th (i.e., one month after 6.2-RC1 was released) as I thought that
6.2-RELEASE, or at very least 6.2-RC2, would be out by now. Obviously
I hadn't counted on there being hardware problems on ftp-master.
In any case: Don't worry about this warning. If any advisories happen
before 6.2-RELEASE, the appropriate binary updates will be available for
6.2-RC1 via FreeBSD Update.
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Security Officer
