Re: ports security branch

2005-12-22 Thread Ian Moore
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 16:54, rihad wrote: Is there a security branch for the FreeBSD ports collection? No, there isn't. Let's say, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 together with all needed -RELEASE ports/packages (i.e., those on the CD). Running security/portaudit after a while reveals that

ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread rihad
Is there a security branch for the FreeBSD ports collection? Let's say, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 together with all needed -RELEASE ports/packages. Running security/portaudit after a while reveals that some of the installed packages have vulnerabilities. Am I on my own to go grab the fresh

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:56:25PM +0400, rihad wrote: Is there a security branch for the FreeBSD ports collection? No, the ports tree is not branched at all. Let's say, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 together with all needed -RELEASE ports/packages. Running security/portaudit after a while

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread rihad
Andrea Venturoli wrote: rihad wrote: FreeBSD only has a current port tree. The port tree you call -RELEASE is simply current as it was at the time the base OS was released. Yes, wrong wording here. I was aware of that snapshot thing happening, just lazy to go check www.freebsd.org for the

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 19, 2005 6:56:25 PM +0400 rihad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a security branch for the FreeBSD ports collection? Let's say, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 together with all needed -RELEASE ports/packages. Running security/portaudit after a while reveals that some of the installed

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by suffering all the intricacies. Cvsup will fetch all the ports that have updates (assuming you use the right config - man is your friend), so you really don't have to do much except launch cvsup (if you haven't already scheduled it routinely)

ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread rihad
Is there a security branch for the FreeBSD ports collection? Let's say, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 together with all needed -RELEASE ports/packages (i.e., those on the CD). Running security/portaudit after a while reveals that some of the installed packages have vulnerabilities. Am I on my own to