From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 01:48:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1872016A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1840743FDD for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:48:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E858E66DE9; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2516BEA; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:47:58 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Antoine Jacoutot Message-ID: <20031017084758.GB3259@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <3F8F9E9C.1070909@lphp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F8F9E9C.1070909@lphp.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports security updates branch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:48:05 -0000 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) >=20 > This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable= =20 > branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow= =20 > the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your=20 > ports. > This does not seem possible under FreeBSD, if I understood correctly=20 > only the current branch (tag=3D.) is used for ports; at least this is wha= t=20 > I always used... > Now, here are my questions about that: > - is there a way to only get the security updates for ports ? (are=20 > security updates for ports included in the FreeBSD security advisories) > - when upgrading to a new release, can I use the release branch for ports= ? >=20 > The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports=20 > everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue. FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports collection is about 5 times the size of OpenBSD's it's too much work. Kris --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/j6y+Wry0BWjoQKURAvnaAJ4tVqYFDIhFsJc/QMsZSFhUuQyzZwCfWl3/ 7mM3INWB9I4OXz4Hd0ABb1w= =xlmF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--