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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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