Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:56:59 +0100 From: "Daniel Bye" <danielby@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using portsuprade only for security Message-ID: <20090505125659.GA46153@torus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470905050537r65d39df8u2e192d13e00c9c40@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470905050537r65d39df8u2e192d13e00c9c40@mail.gmail.com>
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--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:37:28AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of > installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I > prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An > obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security > vulnerabilities; of course not all available updates are security > fixes. >=20 > So my question is: how or where can I monitor security > vulnerabilities? Or, how can I keep my system up-to-date with respect > to security, without applying every non-security update? Subscribe to security-notifications@ (for base system security alerts), and install ports-mgmt/portaudit. --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoAN5sACgkQixf5fBYiFmpdXgCfeAYdKE7lg2E7raeHFBnH6LV7 7vkAn1FXDffM5wK9AgGEJMqA6/sqEN1L =geUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--
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