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
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 your
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 :)
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 collection is
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...
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
However, is there a way to know if one of my installed packages has a
security alert ? I
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 good
