From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 13 07:33:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915C516A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 07:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CD343D1F for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 07:33:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZPS0-0001EF-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:30:44 +0200 Received: from ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com ([62.90.139.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:30:44 +0200 Received: from haim by ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:30:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Haim Ashkenazi Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:30:39 +0300 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <40CB2BC2.4070201@mac.com> <40CBAC5A.4050507@meijome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: news Subject: Re: keeping my freebsd secure... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 07:33:09 -0000 On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:22:34 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> I've tried to upgrade with portupgrade the three packages that according >> to portaudit have problems (mc, png, mysql-client). the response was that >> there's no need to upgrade (version stays the same). do I stay with these >> versions and try to upgrade every day (until a fix will be released) or is >> there some setting I have to change in order to access a newer version? >> [...] > > Your ports directory hasn't been updated. Portupgrade will check what > you have installed against the metadata in the port directory and decide > whether to upgrade or not. > >> sorry if these are basic questions, I'm sure that I can find all the >> answers on the web but as I said before, I have to make this server >> up and running in 2 days and I want at least to keep it safe... > > check the section in the FreeBSD handbook about keepiny your system up > to date with cvsup. You should do this both for your ports collection > and your source tree (to patch/upgrade it, as it is independent of the > port system). Here, you will also have to decide whether to follow > -STABLE or -CURRENT. does the -STABLE branch on the ports offer all the security fixes (the example file use -CURRENT)? I remember reading somewhere that the -CURRENT ports are not guaranteed to compile under stable system. btw, I have an old book "The complete FreeBSD" which I bought about 4 years ago (when I thought of trying freeBSD. I didn't use it then because I couldn't make it recognize my ISDN). is it still relevant? -- Haim