On 04-05-17 10:39, Jens Timmerman wrote: > > On 04/05/2017 08:31, Henkel, Andreas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Recently we started using eb for our new cluster. Yesterday, in our group >> meeting a question was raised concerning updates and security patches for >> installed software similar to apt update/upgrade, yum update,...? >> Or is there a routine to check for newer releases of installed easyconfigs? > Short answer: No > > There are no such systems in place, EasyBuild does not have a security > team, so there are no systems in place for installing security updates.
There is currently one exception: openssl. We have an easyconfig for it but we put it as a osdependency in all cases. So whatever security updates happen to the OS provided version of openssl, Easybuild uses it. Ward
