Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Simon Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd recommend signing up to www.zone-h.org's daily advisory report > > doesn't solve the problem for you, but has most advisories in a single daily > email, which you can eye ball or use mail filters to high light ones that > apply to you. That is a very go

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Gray
ne Jacoutot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:35 PM Subject: Re: ports security updates branch > Matthew Seaman wrote: &

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Matthew Seaman wrote: However, is there a way to know if one of my installed packages has a security alert ? I guess not... but we never know... Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FreeBSD security notices cover problems with ported applications, as do security alerts when the software in question

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:22:05PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports > >>everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue. > > > > > >FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports coll

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Kris Kennaway wrote: The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue. FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports collection is about 5 times the size of OpenBSD's it's too much work. Oh I know that :) O

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable > branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow > the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for you

ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your ports. This does not seem possible under FreeBSD, if I understood correct