Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:35:02 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster best practices Message-ID: <20120123203502.GC32692@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20120123103232.GA79175@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20120123103232.GA79175@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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--2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:32:33PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Hello portmaster users, >=20 > If portaudit shows that some installed packages have vulnerabilities, > what do you usually do? It depends on the vulnerability and what the package does. I will de-install it if I think that the vulnerability is critical for me and there is no workaround. Look at freshports [http://www.freshports.org/commits.php] regularly to see= if updates for vulnerable packages are available. Generally I like to run 'portsnap fetch update' followed by 'portmaster -ai' (after reading /usr/ports/UPDATING) every week. This keeps the number of hu= ge compilefests (like gettext updates :-() to a minimum. For efficiency, I tend to keep one machine up-to-date in that way, and use rsync to then distribute the changes in /usr/local to my other machines. Th= is only works for machines that are on the same major FreeBSD version and architecture, of course. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk8dxHYACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVM1wCgiNuBKVr3urE7qkp11lpsmBR3 6U8An1QupwxyFo1mwN8riZKqyz0GNm9j =JtAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB--
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