Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:22:05 +0200 From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports security updates branch Message-ID: <3F8FD0DD.3040404@lphp.org> In-Reply-To: <20031017084758.GB3259@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <3F8F9E9C.1070909@lphp.org> <20031017084758.GB3259@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >>The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports >>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. Oh I know that :) Ok, I can totally understand why it does not exist then. However, is there a way to know if one of my installed packages has a security alert ? I guess not... but we never know... Thanks for the reply by the way. Antoine
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