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author | Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-01-09 11:19:24 +0000 |
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committer | Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-01-09 11:19:24 +0000 |
commit | 65ab66f32e2a5141e1cf55e797a7b01fd740d962 (patch) | |
tree | 618f11086a415e736f0d00cf23cbfeecbff94c74 /UPDATING | |
parent | 649a622159150e501e820e3ba345215aef7be6b0 (diff) | |
download | ports-65ab66f32e2a5141e1cf55e797a7b01fd740d962.tar.gz ports-65ab66f32e2a5141e1cf55e797a7b01fd740d962.zip |
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@@ -5,6 +5,36 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20110107: + AFFECTS: users of mail/exim + AUTHOR: rea@FreeBSD.org + + [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user + is now the Exim run-time user, instead of root. + + [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer + optional and is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build + option TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration + files which are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned + by root and matches a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked + by the Exim build-time user without Exim relinquishing root + privileges. + + [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically + trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. + Going forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim + configs that include the main config. As a transition mechanism, + we are temporarily providing a work-around: the new build option + WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides a colon-separated list of macro names + which may be overriden by the Exim run-time user. The values of + these macros are constrained to the regex ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ + (which explicitly does allow for empty values). + + Upgrading users are encouraged to fully study + ftp://exim.inode.at/exim/ChangeLogs/NewStuff-4.73 + and + ftp://exim.inode.at/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.73 + 20110103: AFFECTS: users of textproc/libwpd and graphics/libwpg AUTHOR: fluffy@FreeBSD.org |