Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:03:14 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>, Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, James Lim <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. Message-ID: <200012181803.eBII3Ew94725@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <xzphf44l0ro.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012161725010.32357-100000@jamus.xpert.com> <xzphf44l0ro.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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--==_Exmh_1333571908P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> writes: > > pkg_version works with /usr/ports/INDEX which tends to be outdated. > > Porteasy (ports/misc/porteasy) already knows how to: > > 1) update ports/INDEX > 2) make do without it if it already knows the "true" name of the port > 3) update individual ports and their dependencies recursively > 3) obtain the full name and version of ports from their Makefiles When PW commits a very short patch to bsd.port.mk (in his defense, he's been meaning to do this for awhile), pkg_version will work just wonderfully without an installed /usr/ports/INDEX file, querying ports' Makefiles for current version numbers. sobomax and I have been testing this since before BSDCon; the pkg_* code necessary to make this work has been in -CURRENT and -STABLE since before 4.2-RELEASE. To be honest, I haven't seen porteasy, but my feeling about #3 above is that it's really really hard for an automated system to get right all of the time. Cheers, Bruce. --==_Exmh_1333571908P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6PlFi2MoxcVugUsMRAusbAJ4wx/LFDBntnevqN+1pglMPCAAUtgCgjazm X3ZqLRwPKbem1uR01idOQbY= =BHbd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1333571908P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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