From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 10:09:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09FD16A42F for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (a2.scoop.co.nz [202.50.109.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F2B43D46 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4OA9Ips099248; Wed, 24 May 2006 22:09:18 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id k4OA9II8099245; Wed, 24 May 2006 22:09:18 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) X-Authentication-Warning: a2.scoop.co.nz: andrew owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:09:18 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton To: "Constantine A. Murenin" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060524220703.K62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> References: <20060523120100.37D2B16A54F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (a2.scoop.co.nz [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 24 May 2006 22:09:18 +1200 (NZST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.1/1479/Wed May 24 17:17:23 2006 on a2.scoop.co.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roger Marquis Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:22 -0000 On Wed, 24 May 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 23/05/06, Roger Marquis wrote: >> All that said FreeBSD's ports are still the reference >> implementation, head-and-shoulders better than up2date, yum, rpm, >> apt-get, or anything else out there. > > I guess you haven't looked at OpenBSD's branch of FreeBSD's > pkg_add(1), where they've added some cool support for automatic port > updating, which seems to work quite well: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/ Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew McNaughton http://www.scoop.co.nz/ andrew@scoop.co.nz Mobile: +61 422 753 792 pgp keyid: 1C7A8CFD -- "We are trying to figure out how you conduct a war against something other than a nation-state and how ... you conduct a war in countries that you are not at war with," -- Donald Rumsfeld, 27 Jan 2006